A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.

Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.

It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life

What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is 'himself'.

Writing has... been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.

The majority never has right on its side. Never, I say! That is one of these social lies against which an independent, intelligent men must wage war. Who is it that constitute the majority of the population in a country? Is it the clever folk, or the stupid? I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.

Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.