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

There are plagues, and there are victims, and it's the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

There is no more futile punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

To begin with, poor people´s memory is less nourished than that of a rich; it has fewer landmarks in space because they seldom leave the place where they live, and fewer reference points in time throughtout lives that are grey and featureless.

I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.

The only way out [of international dictatorship] is to place international law above governments, which means [...] that there must be a parliament for making it, and that parliament must be constituted by means of worldwide elections in which all nations will take part.