There is no bad day that can’t be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet. This is just truth, plain and simple.

To write fiction, one needs a whole series of inspirations about people in an actual environment, and then a whole lot of work on the basis of those inspirations.

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched.

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable