Finished things cease to be a shelter for the spirit; but work in progress is a delight.

A society needs famous people; the question is whom it chooses for that role. Any criticism of its choice is by implication a criticism of that society.

The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

I have no words for my reality.

Stillertook part in the Spanish Civil WarIt is not clear what impelled him to this military gesture. Probably many factors were combined--a rather romantic Communism, such as was common among bourgeois intellectuals at that time.

Cause and effect are never divided between two people.