The intellectual is not defined by professional group and type of occupation. Nor are good upbringing and a good family enough in themselves to produce an intellectual. An intellectual is a person whose interest in and preoccupation with the spiritual side of life are insistent and constant and not forced by external circumstances, even flying in the face of them. An intellectual is a person whose thought is nonimitative.

Our envy of others devours us most of all.

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

It is within the power of writers and artists to do much more: to defeat the lie!

In all probability an outburst of desperation in the midst of general submissiveness will always help.

But there are still people whose moral superiority defeats your own.

In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars.