To be married to a good woman is to live with tender surprise.

Growth is a greater mystery than death. All of us can understand failure, we all contain failure and death within us, but not even the successful man can begin to describe the impalpable elations and apprehensions of growth.

Writers don't have lifestyles. They just sit in little rooms and write.

There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

To be married to a good woman is to live with tender surprise.

The Frenchman Jean-PaulSartre ... had a dialectical mind good as a machine for cybernetics, immense in its way, he could peel a nuance like an onion, but he had no sense of evil, the anguish of God, and the possible existence of Satan.