At four o'clock in the morning, when everyone is drunk enough, then extraordinary things can happen.

People who cling to their illusions find it difficult, if not impossible, to learn anything worth learning: a people under the necessity of creating themselves must examine everything, and soak up learning the way the roots of a tree soak up water.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

Artists are here to disturb the peace.

For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.

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