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.

From Pandora's Box, where all the ills of humanity swarmed, the Greeks drew out hope after all the others, as the most dreadful of all. I know no more stirring symbol; for, contrary to the general belief, hope equals resignation. And to live is not to resign oneself.

For there is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving.

One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn't even know whether or not one can hang on till the next day.

Without freedom there is no art.

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.

It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.