I hate everything which is not in myself.

You're gambling with something vital. Most writers get smashed egos.

The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.

People who live under fascism are not only miserable but they're full of shame. You just don't go in and inject democracy into them. They're half crazy with their own.

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell.

There's nothing glorious about being a professional. . . . Professionalism probably comes down to being able to work on a bad day.