…there's no question of heroism in all this. It's a matter of common decency. That's an idea which may make some people smile, but the only means of fighting a plague is - common decency.

For a man who loves power, competition from the gods is annoying. I have done away with that. I have proven to these illusory godsthat a man, if he has the will, can practice, without any apprenticeship, their ridiculous trade.

In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary.

Something must happen; that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen; even servitude in love, in war, ordeath.

Old married people look so much alike that they have the same number of hairs in their ears.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

Suffering gives us no special rights.