“Poets and intellectuals...are the ones the tyrants go after first.”
“Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.”
“A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it.”
“Better to live under one tyrant a thousand miles away, than a thousand tyrants one mile away.”
“This is why therapists go to such lengths to urge their anxious patients away from intellectualization: The first step toward peace is disarmament.”
“One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.”