You mustn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.

There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.

In morals as in politics anarchy is not for the weak.

This grossly advertised wonder [Venice], this gold idol with clay feet, this trompe-l'oeil, this painted deception, this cliche-what intelligent iconoclast could fail to experience a destructive impulse in her presence?

Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.

The horror of Gandhi's murder lies not in the political motives behind it or in its consequences for Indian policy or for the future of non-violence; the horror lies simply in the fact that any man could look into the face of this extraordinary person and deliberately pull a trigger.

As soon as you become a writer, you lose contact with ordinary experience or tend to. ... the worst fate of a writer is to become a writer.