To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.

Happiness can only exist in acceptance.

Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.

The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.

From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books.

The belly comes before the soul.

We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.