The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.

To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois.

I have no religion,’ says Borneau, ‘but I respect the religion of others. Religion is sacred.’ Why this privilege, this immunity?... A believer creates God in his own image; if he is ugly, his God will be morally ugly. Why should moral ugliness be respectable?

I am afraid I shall not find him, but I shall still look for him, for if he exists, he may be appreciative of my efforts.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

It is in the midst of the city that one writes the most inspiring pages about the country.

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.