The intelligentsia ...was kept busy embroidering white stitches on the philosophical and ecclesiastical vestments of the bourgeoisie - that old and filthy fabric besmeared with the blood of toiling masses.

When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.

The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.

This fear is what is the ruin of us all. And some dominate us; they take advantage of our fear and frighten us still more. Mark this: as long as people are afraid, they will rot like the birches in the marsh. We must grow bold; it is time!

Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.

Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt

In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.