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.

Periods of rapid and fundamental change were never favourable for literature. Significant works, have nearly always and everywhere been created in periods of stability, be it good or bad.

As the old proverb says: "Well-fed horses don't rampage.

No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death.

A meek fellow ... is a real godsend in any gang.

It makes me happier, more secure, to think that I do not have to plan and manage everything for myself, that I am only a sword made sharp to smite the unclean forces, an enchanted sword to cleave and disperse them. Grant, O Lord, that I may not break as I strike! Let me not fall from Thy hand!

One drop of truth can outweigh an ocean of lies