Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized upon by a madness which forced them to commit the very acts which make it certain that what they dread will happen.

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

The case against religion is the responsibility of God for the sufferings of mankind, which makes it impossible to believe the good things said about Him in the Bible, and consequently to believe anything it says about Him.

Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.

No one can write a best-seller by taking thought. The slightest touch of insincerity blurs its appeal. The writer who keeps his tongue in his cheek, who knows that he is writing for fools and that, therefore, he had better write like a fool, makes a respectable living out of serials and novelettes; but he will never make the vast, the blaring, half a million success. That comes of blended sincerity and vitality.

I believe if people are looking for the truth, the truth of the Christian religion will come out and meet them.

every human activity, whether it be love, philosophy, art, or revolution, is carried on with a special intensity in Paris.