It is good for a person who has suffered from acute shyness, as I had, to find that he can cause as much upset as he suffered. Better to be a brute, I thought, than to be a wallflower.

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

It's weird when people start sentences with 'frankly' - as if their other sentences don't count.

The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.