Love is the wish to give, not to receive.

You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.

The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.

Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. ... In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.

Writers can't write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.