The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely one can only write the book that is there to be written.

People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts.

the autobiography is at one and the same time a single element in the series of the writer's created works and an interpretation of the whole series.

A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, for such a society is a house built upon sand.

Of all devils let loose in the world there is no devil like devoted love.

It's very inconvenient being a sculptor. It's like playing the double-bass; one's so handicapped by one's baggage.

We are much too much inclined in these days to divide people into permanent categories, forgetting that a category only exists for its special purpose and must be forgotten as soon as that purpose is served.