“Until work has reached its previous stage nympharium privileges are denied to all.”
“Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion.”
“That is why she dislikes dreams: they impose an unacceptable equivalence among the various periods of the same life, a leveling contemporaneity of everything a person has ever experienced; they discredit the present by denying it its privileged status.”
“I will say only that all a writer has to work with is the material he has gathered as the result of his own endeavor and observations, and he cannot be denied the right to use it. Condemn, but not deny.”
“Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.”
“Everyone has a breaking point. Deny it, and you'll blind yourself to know when you've reached yours.”