Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

Thinking means connecting things, and stops if they cannot be connected.

For the mass of men the idea of artistic creation can only be expressed by an idea unpopular in present discussions - the idea of property... Property is merely the art of the democracy... One would think, to hear people talk, that the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers were on the side of property. But obviously they are the enemies of property; because they are enemies of their own limitations.

Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.

It is human to err; and the only final and deadly error, among all our errors, is denying that we have ever erred.

Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.

Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.