The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.

Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.

I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.