If you seek authenticity for authenticity's sake you are no longer authentic.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

As long as the writer cannot write for the two billion men who are hungry, he will be oppressed by a feeling of malaise.

Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom-ah the soul-destroying boredom-of long days of mild content.

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.