... there has never been a period in history when there have been necessary killings which has not been instantly followed by a period when there have been unnecessary killings.

My memory is certainly in my hands. I can remember things only if I have a pencil and I can write with it and I can play with it. ... I think your hand concentrates for you. I don't know why it should be so.

There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die.

music is a missionary effort to colonize earth for imperialistic heaven.

Fiction and poetry are the only way one can stop time and give an account of an experience and nail it down so that it lasts for ever.

[The satirist] must fully possess, at least in the world of the imagination, the quality the lack of which he is deriding in others.

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.