A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.
A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
Some of these days, Oh, you'll miss me honey
Respectable society believed in God in order to avoid having to speak about him.
I enjoy feeling fastidious and aloof. I enjoy saying no, always no, and I should be afraid of any attempt to construct a finally habitable world, because I should merely have to say - Yes; and act like other people.
When my relations with the Communist Party gave me the necessary perspective I decided to write my autobiography. I wanted to show how a man can pass from literature held sacred to action which nevertheless remains that of an intellectual.