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

Driving a car, you are in danger of killing; walking or standing, of being killed.

The relation between life and literature - a final antimony - is one of mutual plagiarism.

The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful.

Morality did not keep well; it required stable conditions; it was costly; it was subject to variations, and the market for it was uncertain.

Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was not the center of the universe.

love of truth, ordinary common truth recognizable to everyone, is the ruling passion of the novel.