“There's no alternative to being yourself. Accept it, honour it, value it - and get on with it.”

“There's no value in doubting yourself. Accept your brilliance.”

“If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort.”

“Put a higher value on yourself. Being hyper-realistic about everything is too simple a get-out.”

“What hope is there for individual reality or authenticity when the forces of violence and orthodoxy, the earthly powers of guns and bombs and manipulated public opinion make it impossible for us to be authentic and fulfilled human beings?The only hope is in the creation of alternative values, alternative realities. The only hope is in daring to redream one's place in the world - a beautiful act of imagination, and a sustained act of self becoming. Which is to say that in some way or another we breach and confound the accepted frontiers of things.”

“You have to arrive at unbelief yourself, and Russians get their unbelief for free, therefore they don't value it, they value faith.”