When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.

Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.

To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge.

We [writers] must know that we can never escape the common misery and that our only justification, if indeed there is a justification, is to speak up, insofar as we can, for those who cannot do so.

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

Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question.

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.