Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

In our age, when technology is gaining control over life, when material well-being is considered the most important goal, when the influence of religion has been weakened everywhere in the world, a special responsibility lies upon the writer.

We have been fortunate enough to live at a time when virtue, though it does not triumph, is nonetheless not always tormented by attack dogs. Beaten down, sickly, virtue has now been allowed to enter in all its tatters and sit in the corner, as long as it doesn't raise its voice.

It's not the sea that drowns you-it's the puddle.

Once the fight is on-strike quickly and often.

Your friend will argue with you.

There is no point asserting and reasserting what the heart cannot believe.