If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it's wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.