"When power is concentrated, it can be abused."

"Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it."

"I'm not a prophet. I'm just a writer with a good imagination."

"The ends justify the means. But what if there are no ends?"

"I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin."