The less one notices happiness, the greater it is.

War has become an affair of machines...and soldiers are little more than clever mechanics.

When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn't. But I don't sit back waiting for it. I work every day.

Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.

Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.

In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be.

This thought strengthened in me my belief that all men, without exception, deserve to be pitied, if only because they are alive.