Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are.

In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul

I am too much in love with my lies and hypocrisies not to confess them fervently.

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.

Even when one sits in the prisoner's dock, it is interesting to hear talk about oneself.

It would be unjust, and moreover Utopian, for Shakespeare to direct the shoemakers' union. But it would be equally disastrous forthe shoemakers' union to ignore Shakespeare.

I was absent at the moment I took up the most space.