Every man is his own Pygmalion, and spends his life fashioning himself. And in fashioning himself, for good or ill, he fashions the human race and its future.

History is a tragedy, not a morality tale.

The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.

If you want to know about governments, all you need to know is two words: Governments lie.

If you live long enough, you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had.

Victor Serge died in exile and obscurity, apparently no more than a splinter of a splinter in the Marxist movement. But with the passage of the years, he looms up as one of the great moral figures of our time, an artist of such integrity and a revolutionary of such purity as to overshadow those who achieved fame and power. His failure was his success. I know of no participant in Russia's revolution and Spain's agonies who more deserves the attention of our concerned youth.

The only thing God didn't do to Job was give him a computer.