The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

The American myth is of free will in its simple, primary sense. One can choose oneself and will oneself; and this absurdly optimistic assumption so dominates the republic that it has bred all its gross social injustices.

He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.

Art is a statement of one in the face of all; not a statement by one for the use of all.

I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships. Our relationship with our fellowmen. Our relationship with our economic and historical situation. And above all our relationship to nothingness, to death.

All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one.

Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity.