The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.

Our Twentieth Century has proved to be more cruel than preceding centuries, and the first fifty years have not erased all its horrors. Our world is rent asunder by those same old cave-age emotions of greed, envy, lack of control, mutual hostility which have picked up in passing respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, radical conflict, struggle of the masses, trade-union disputes.

In military science there is a principle more important than "Forward": it is that the task should be proportionate to the means.

Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine.

Should one point out that from ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end?

Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason.

I refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to approach literature without a moral responsibility for every word you write.