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

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

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.

Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.

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

For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.

To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.