When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.

Everyone has the right to express an opinion. No one has the right to be listened to.

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.

Industrial society seems likely to be entering a period of severe stress, due in part to problems of human behavior and in part to economic and environmental problems

Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the Present with the Past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in those without a Past is it to be discovered.

It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.

The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.