When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.

To talk, simply to talk! It sounds so little, and how much it is! When you have existed to the brink of middle age in bitter loneliness, among people to whom your true opinion on every subject on earth is blasphemy, the need to talk is the greatest of all needs.

When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, 'I am going to produce a work of art.' I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.

News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising.

If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any practical result whatsoever, you've beaten them.

The pleasures of spring are available to everybody and cost nothing.