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.

Communism will never be halted by negotiations or through the machinations of detente. It can only be halted by force from without or by disintegration from within.

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.

Thus, literature, together with language, preserves and protects a nation's soul.

I leaf through the ancient philosophers and find my newest discoveries there.

To taste the sea all one needs is one gulp.

To preserve his life, should a man pay everything that gives it color, scent and excitement?