Neither as a writer nor, moreover, as a leader of a nation should you use terminology that obscures the reality of human evil.

I like the idea of isolation. I like the reality of it. You realize what you are... not that the knowledge is inevitably rewarding.

The imprisoning of a writer is the same as the burning of a book.

Who included me among the ranks of the human race?

The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even / if you will / eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse