It's true that private enterprise is extremely flexible, But its only good within very narrow limits. If private enterprise isn't held in an iron grip it gives birth to people who are no better than beasts, those stock-exchange people with greedy appetites beyond restraint.

I would rather have the United States as the world's policeman than the Soviet Union as the world's jailer.

The fewer limitations the artist imposes on his work, the less chance he has for artistic success.

We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.

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.

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

Not death itself, but only the moral preparation for it, holds terrors.