People change and forget to tell each other.

History is made by masses of people. One man, or ten men, don't start the earthquakes and don't stop them either. Only hero worshipers and ignorant historians think they do.

I don't think many writers like their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago.

You are what you are. It is my opinion that trouble in the world comes from people who do not know what they are, and pretend to be something they're not.

Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.

God forgives those who invent what they need.

It was an unspoken pleasure, that having come together so many years, ruined so much and repaired a little, we had endured.