I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.

Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught is wrong!

Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.

I have but one passion: to enlighten those who have been kept in the dark, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and is entitled to happiness. My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.

The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better.

It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.

The conclusion does not belong to the artist.