Righteous people have no sense of humor.

Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense. Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.

What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?

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.

The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.

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

Life is short and so is money.