I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket. Revolution, legality--counter-moves in the same game; forms of idleness at bottom identical.

Youth is insolent; it is its right - its necessity; it has got to assert itself, and all assertion in this world of doubts is a defiance, is an insolence.

I am a great foe of favoritism in public life, in private life, and even in the delicate relationship of an author to his works.

A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.

The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.

The artist appeals to that part of our being...which is a gift and not an acquisition - and, therefore, more permanently enduring.