Commitment is an act, not a word.

So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.

Things are entirely what they appear to be and behind them... there is nothing.

So much torture, bloodshed, deceit. You cannot make your young people practice torture twenty-four hours a day and not expect to pay a price for it.

There is no book of mine that I reject. That does not mean that I find them good.

Like morality, literature needs to be universal. So that the writer must put himself on the side of the majority, of the two billion starving, if he wishes to be able to speak to all and be read by all. Failing that, he is at the service of a privileged class and, like it, an exploiter.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.