Great art can only be created out of love.

Those kids aren't dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don't get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.

It is a very grave matter to be forced to imitate a people for whom you know-which is the price of your performance and survival-you do not exist. It is hard to imitate a people whose existence appears, mainly, to be made tolerable by their bottomless gratitude that they are not, thank heaven, you.

Allegiance, after all, has to work two ways; and one can grow weary of an allegiance which is not reciprocal.

There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.

You've got to tell the world how to treat you. If the world tells you how you are going to be treated, you are in trouble.

There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.