What I see is teeming cohesion, contained dispersal... For him, to sculpt is to take the fat off space.

I had realized in the meantime that action too has its difficulties, and that one can also be led to it by neurosis. We are not saved by politics any more than by literature.

it was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.

There are two ways of destroying a people. Either condemn them en bloc or force them to repudiate the leaders they adopted. The second is the worse.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

I hate victims who respect their executioners.