Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.

We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.

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

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

A good liar must have a good memory.

Memory... is an internal rumour.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.