Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?

humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle

The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world... The reason is obvious. In a large community we can choose our companions. In a small community our companions are chosen for us.

You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it.