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

Prayers are like those appeals of ours. Either they don't get through or they're returned with 'rejected' scrawled across 'em.

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.

... but it is human to be outraged by injustice, even to the point of courting destruction!

When you're young, you haven't the experience, when you're old you haven't the strength.

Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself.

The simple act of an ordinary courageous man is not to take part, not to support lies! Let that come into the world and even reign over it, but not through me. Writers and artists can do more: they can vanquish lies! ... Lies can stand up against much in the world, but not against art.