To think and to be fully alive are the same.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women stand as a vanguard against abuse.

Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.

One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.

There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

His silent, stony face was only inches away now. He was so near, so terribly near – and then he moved to close the last bit of distance.

It's not always wise to assume that just because the surface of the world appears undisturbed, life is where you left it.

Those who complimented me were those who understood me the least.

God sees in you what you can't see in yourself. Remember to keep the faith and never give up!

People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or hyacinths.

Do I open it? Do I open it? Of course I freaking open it!

You can't chemical your way out of soil infertility

Man appears to be the missing link between anthropoid apes and human beings.

I spent two years living in London - I'd have stayed for ever if I could have got a work visa. It was there I started collecting vinyl and fell in love with the sounds of the 1970s.

I am a person who goes out without a purse. I put things in my coat pockets, so I don't have any accessories.