Drowning men, it is said, cling to wisps of straw.

Let us first fulfill Christ's injunction ourselves and only then venture to expect it of our children. Otherwise we are not fathers, but enemies of our children, and they are not our children, but our enemies, and we have made them our enemies ourselves.

Just take a look around you: Blood is flowing in rivers and in such a jolly way you’d think it was champagne.

To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible of punishments so that the most ferocious murderer would shudder at it and dread it beforehand, one need only give him work of an absolutely, completely useless and irrational character.

I utter what you would not dare think

I do not rebel against my God, I simply do not accept his world.

At first, art imitates life. Then life will imitate art.Then life will find its very existence from the arts.