The cheaper books become, the less money is spent on books.

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

The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a good book in praise of the Inquisition.

Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.

Preventive war is a crime not easily committed by a country that retains any traces of democracy.

The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped.

So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.