Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.

It's a dangerous thing to be married right up to the hilt, like my daughter's husband. The man is at home all day, like a damned soul in hell.

Worst of all, there is no sign of any relaxation of antisemitism. Logically it has nothing to do with Fascism. But the human raceis imitative rather than logical; and as Fascism spreads antisemitism spreads.

All great Truth first starts as Blasphemy.

Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.

Well, upon my soul! You are not ashamed to stand there and confess yourself a disgusting drunkard.

You know, Tolstoy, like myself, wasn't taken in by superstitions like science and medicine.