The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.

Societies never know it, but the war of an artist with his society is a lover's war, and he does, at his best, what lovers do, which is to reveal the beloved to himself and, with that revelation, to make freedom real.

One can only face in others what one can face in oneself.

To be born in a free society and not to be born free is to be born into a lie. To be told by co-citizens and co-Christians that you have no value, no history, have never done anything that is worthy of human respect destroys you because in the beginning you believe it.

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.