A new conception of life cannot be imposed on men; it can only be freely assimilated. And it can only be freely assimilated in two ways: one spiritual and internal, the other experimental and external.

For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.

I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

Good fiction doesn't come out of the basic conflict of good versus bad. Instead, it comes out of a conflict between good and good.

Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.

Levin scowled. The humiliation of his rejection stung him to the heart, as though it were a fresh wound he had only just received. But he was at home, and at home the very walls are a support.