I struggled in the beginning. I said I was going to write the truth, so help me God. And I thought I was. I found I couldn't. Nobody can write the absolute truth.

How different the new order would be if we could consult the veteran instead of the politician.

Until we lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

To imagine a new world is to live it daily, each thought, each glance, each step, each gesture, killing and recreating, death always a step in advance. To spit on the past is not enough. To proclaim the future is not enough. One must act as if the past were dead and the future unrealizable.

Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist. To make living itself an art, that is the goal.

Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.

If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.