Surely people should eventually cease to be surprised at anything? And yet they continue to be.

If you wanted to put the world to rights, who should you begin with: yourself or others?

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.

I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.

The essence of life will never be captured by even the greatest of formulas.

And the over-all fact that you are a frail vessel full of errors.