"Writing is a matter of patience and stubbornness, not talent."

I prefer to supervise the whole operations of the government myself rather than entrust the public business to subordinates.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

"The tiniest event can tear a hole in the grey curtain of reaction which has marked the horizons of possibility under capitalist realism."

You must have the eyes of an abyss to gaze into the abyss.