A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer.

We go to great pains to alter life for the happiness of our descendants and our descendants will say as usual: things used to be so much better, life today is worse than it used to be.

Nothing better forges a bond of love, friendship or respect than common hatred toward something.

If you cry ''Forward'' you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely opposite directions?

What must human beings be, to destroy what they can never create?

It's immoral to steal, but you can take things.

Dear and most respected bookcase! I welcome your existence, which has for over one hundred years been devoted to the radiant ideals of goodness and justice.