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

The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce.

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

Because the world to-day is so constructed that no one can do what he would like to do, and he is forced, instead, to do what others wish him to do. Because the question of money always intrudes—into what we do, into what we are, into what we wish to become, into our work, into our highest aspirations, even into our relations with the people we love!

The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.

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

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.