…What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.

When the leader goes wayward, the organization goes wayward.

All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.

Do not fight with others. Fight with your ego

Friends help friends fight pixies.

The truth is the best brands, like the most interesting people, have a keen sense of self.

Being part of a patriarchal society, it kind of helped me figure out what I was all about.

My dad was an Arsenal supporter and he used to take me there, but I've always been Chelsea.

He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates what is good always falls short.

Life as we know it is a death sentence.

I care more about getting this right [NHS reform] than I do about getting it done.