Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all.

[My characters are] conglomerations of past and present stages of civilization, bits from books and newspapers, scraps of humanity, rags and tatters of fine clothing, patched together as is the human soul

No matter how far we travel, the memories will follow in the baggage car.

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.

When is revolution legal? When it succeeds!