The sensible world is an image of the intellectual.

I love going one-on-one with someone. That's what I do. I've never lost.

The Soviet man was a man who was always waiting—for rations, for orders, for the end.

The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.

Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems—but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.