Propaganda is not French, it is not civilized to want other people to believe what you believe because the essence of being civilised is to possess yourself as you are, and if you possess yourself as you are you of course cannot possess any one else, it is not your business. (New York: Liveright, 1970, p. 56)

Politeness does not interfere with facts, politeness is just another fact.

The family is always the family but during vacations it is an extended family and that is exhausting. (New York: Liveright, 1970, p. 107)

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.

'No man -prince, peasant, pope, -has all the light, who says else is a mountebank. I claim no private lien on truth, only a liberty to seek it, prove it in deb…

We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.

But what could be more important than your happiness? It's said that an authoritarian moral code is necessary to protect society. But who is society? Isn't it …