I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.

But truths need to be repeated many times so that they don't, poor things, lapse into oblivion.

I always ask two questions: How many countries have military bases in the United States? And in how many countries does the United States not have military bases?

Writer's make national literature, while translators make universal literature.

Not only does the universe have its own laws, all of them indifferent to the contradictory dreams and desires of humanity, and in the formulation of which we contribute not one iota, apart, that is, from the words by which we clumsily name them, but everything seems to indicate that it uses these laws for aims and objectives that transcend and always will transcend our understanding.

Ah, in every age there is always some new wonder to astound mankind until they grow accustomed to it and lose interest.

The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.