Once crime was as solitary as a cry of protest; now it is as universal as science. Yesterday it was put on trial; today it determines the law.

On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there, lays the freedom of Art.

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

Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.

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.

But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all.

As soon as one does not kill oneself, one must keep silent about life.