The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.

Here I am,' I thought, 'back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.

No one could really hate a saint, could they? They can't really hate God either. When they want to Hate Him and His saints they have to find something like themselves and pretends it's God and hate that.

At first it was impressive, but after half and hour deadly monotonous. It was like everything German - overdone.

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

I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.

What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.