An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor [group think] of the age and not go flopping along. By doing this he helps us to question and reassess our past, present and future situations, our assumptions and our options.

I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.

He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.

The languor of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost!

Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.

There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair.

... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.