Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

This [service to oppressed] is the writer's task, and, if he fulfills it as he should, he acquires no merit from it.

The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

Photographs are not ideas. They give us ideas.

The world would get along very well without literature. It would get along even better without man.