Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.

Metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with.

Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.

Looking out over the courtyard at the dirty walls, he realized he had no idea whether it was hysteria or love.

The more vast the amount of time we've left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us to return to it.

Our historical experience teaches us that men imitate one another, that their attitudes are statistically calculable, their opinions manipulable, and that man is therefore less an individual (a subject) than an element in a mass.

Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality.