I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat. I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.

No one yet knows what a man's province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial.

I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.

Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25 to 100 per cent.

Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man ... the highest joy is to fight by the side of those who for any reason of their own making or ours, are unable to develop to full human stature.

But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.

Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.