This fear is what is the ruin of us all. And some dominate us; they take advantage of our fear and frighten us still more. Mark this: as long as people are afraid, they will rot like the birches in the marsh. We must grow bold; it is time!

An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how to express them in a convincing form.

Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.

One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.

Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.

What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that's all there is to it.

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.