The strong must learn to be lonely.

Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.

One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to fight for freedom.

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

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

I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority

There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.