I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.

Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.

An artist must know the reality he is depicting in its minutest detail. In my opinion we have only one shining example of that - Count Leo Tolstoy.

But people will laugh at all sorts of things.

The more incompetent one feels, the more eager he is to fight.

It is necessary that every man have at least somewhere to go. For there are times when one absolutely must go at least somewhere!

A special form of misery had begun to oppress him of late. There was nothing poignant, nothing acute about it; but there was a feeling of permanence, of eternity about it; it brought a foretaste of hopeless years of this cold leaden misery, a foretaste of an eternity "on a square yard of space.