It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.

There are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a lunatic.

You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves.

Writing a novel is agony.

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.

We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

All men are enemies. All animals are comrades