Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.

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

Amateurs... venture into scenes that a writer with more experience (and more professional concern) would bypass or eschew altogether.

What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.

Like all men who are Napoleonic in their ambitionshe has instincts about the nature of growth, a lover's sense of the momentof crisis, and he knewhow costly is defeat when it is not soothed by greater consciousness, and how wasteful is the profit of victory when there is not the courage to employ it.

We are all so guilty at the way we have allowed the world around us to become more ugly and tasteless every year that we surrender to terror and steep ourselves in it.

I guess all that's left is to love the fire.