Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.

One has not the right to betray even a traitor. Traitors must be fought, got betrayed.

We shall never know how many acts of cowardice have been motivated by the fear of appearing not sufficiently progressive.

Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper.

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.

It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas.