The time has come for writers, especially those who are artists, to admit that in this world one cannot make anything out, just as Socrates once admitted it, just as Voltaire admitted it.

I should think I'm going to be a perpetual student.

Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.

The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can't return even if it wants to.

There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.

Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

All I wanted was to say honestly to people: 'Have a look at yourselves and see how bad and dreary your lives are!' The important thing is that people should realize that, for when they do, they will most certainly create another and better life for themselves. I will not live to see it, but I know that it will be quite different, quite unlike our present life. And so long as this different life does not exist, I shall go on saying to people again and again: 'Please, understand that your life is bad and dreary!'