All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.

Terrible is the temptation to be good.

Grub first, then ethics.

Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.

Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.