I shall not, as far as I am concerned, try to pass myself off as a Christian in your presence. I share with you the same revulsion from evil. But I do not share your hope, and I continue to struggle against this universe in which children suffer and die.

It's not your pictures I like; it's your painting.

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

When the body is sad, the heart languishes.

There are places where the mind dies so that a truth which is its very denial may be born.

God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.

The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.