The one who pulls is the one they urge on.

I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances - from my grave even more successfully and more irrefutably than in my lifetime.

The secret is that when you've been pitched head first into hell you just write about it

Art thaws even the frozen, darkened soul, opening it to lofty spiritual experience.

There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.

A genius doesn't adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant's taste

Human beings are better and lazier than their rules and instructions.