In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are shot after the revolution.

On the one hand, I have wanted to supply documentation on myself by including material relevant to my emotions and ideas in my youth; and, on the other, not to let myself down by publishing inferior material. My poetry comes under the latter head. My only advice to the reader is to skip any verse that he sees coming.

The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute will overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appearances.