Being in the pulpit, was like being in the theatre; I was behind the scenes and knew how the illusion worked.

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

Passion is not friendly. It is arrogant, superbly contemptuous of all that is not itself, and, as they very definition of passion implies the impulse to freedom, it has a might intimidiating power. It contains a challenge. It contains an unspeakable hope.

A ghetto can be improved in one way only: out of existence.

When you're writing you're trying to find out something which you don't know.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

It is astonishing that in a country so devoted to the individual, so many people should be afraid to speak.