The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty bothers.

All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is.

I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time.

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.

I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.