I am certainly convinced that it is one of the greatest impulses of mankind to arrive at something higher than a natural state.

There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.

James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare-- but it may be that nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped in history and history in trapped in them.

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

You took the best, so why not take the rest?

Writing is a political instrument.

There exists among the intolerable degraded, the perverse and powerful desire to force into the arena of the actual those fantastic crimes of which they have been accused, achieving their vengeance and their own destruction through making the nightmare real.