A writer doesn’t solve problems. He allows them to emerge.
Every work of art depicts an aspect of reality.
What the world needs is not redemption from sin but redemption from hunger and oppression; it has no need to pin its hopes upon Heaven, it has everything to hope for from this earth.
When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.
The savages don't have atom bombs.
A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.