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

Criticism often takes from the tree caterpillars and blossoms together.

I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

This desire [to write] is rather strange all the same and is not without a certain "cracked" quality.

I receive letters from workers, from secretaries. . . . They are the most interesting ones.