Anybody who has ever tried to rectify an injustice or set a record straight comes to feel that he is going mad.

The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof

People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.

It really takes a hero to live any kind of spiritual life without religious belief.

Sex annihilates identity, and the space given to sex in contemporary novels is an avowal of the absence of character.

Yet friendship, I believe, is essential to intellectuals. It is probably the growth hormone the mind requires as it begins its activity of producing and exchanging ideas. You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk. In the course of my history, not love or marriage so much as friendship has promoted growth.

If you want to be your own master ... always be surprised by evil; never anticipate it.