We must act out passion before we can feel it.
It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.
The past is the luxury of proprietors.
I receive letters from workers, from secretaries. . . . They are the most interesting ones.
The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
A writer who takes political, social or literary positions must act only with the means that are his. These means are the written words.