The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.

Defiance is beautiful. The defiance of power, especially great or overwhelming power, exalts and glorifies the rebel.

Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in.

It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power, who will?

How did Haydn and Mozart produce such vast quantities of formally perfect art? They worked from a perfect formula. In music, Beethoven was the Great Emancipator.

In the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood.

The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war.