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

I saw him open his mouth wide. . . as though he had wanted to swallow all the air, all the earth, all the men before him.

If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything .

There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies.

The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.

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.

The moon had spread over everything a thin layer of silver - over the rank grass, over the mud, upon the wall of matted vegetation standing higher than the wall of a temple, over the great river I could see through a sombre gap glittering, glittering, as it flowed broadly by without a murmur. All this was great, expectant, mute, while the man jabbered about himself.