“You must take into account the actual distinction between truth and fact. It is beyond all human power to tell all the facts. Your whole lifetime spent at nothing else would not tell all the facts of one morning in your life, just any ordinary morning when you get up, dress, get breakfast and wash the dishes. Facts are infinite in number. The truth is a meaning underlying them; you tell the truth by selecting the facts to illustrate it.”

“I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, because I believed in personal freedom.”

“Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.”

“You must take into account the actual distinction between truth and fact. It is beyond all human power to tell all the facts. Your whole lifetime spent at nothing else would not tell all the facts of one morning in your life, just any ordinary morning when you get up, dress, get breakfast and wash the dishes. Facts are infinite in number. The truth is a meaning underlying them; you tell the truth by selecting the facts to illustrate it.”

“No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.”

“Making the best of things is a damn poor way of dealing with them. My life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.”