Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.

Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.

Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.

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.

What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?

Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?

Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.