Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value, and its face of eternal youth.

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

When the throne of God is overturned, the rebel realizes that it is now his own responsibility to create the justice, order, and unity that he sought in vain within his own condition, and in this way to justify the fall of God. Then begins the desperate effort to create, at the price of crime and murder if necessary, the dominion of man.

It's not the struggle that makes us artists, but Art that makes us struggle.

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

Liberty is dangerous, as hard to get along with as it is exciting.

The day of my arrest I was first put in a room where there were already several other prisoners, most of them Arabs. They laughed when they saw me. Then they asked what I was in for. I said I'd killed an Arab and they were all silent