There is no abstract Evil; you have to understand that! Its roots are here, all around us, in this herd that goes on chewing and having a good time only an hour after a murder!

There are far more reasons for death than there are for life.

Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them.

Life consists of nothing but exceptions.

For every prophet there are a thousand interpreters to distort the essence of the religion, to replace the bright flame with the heat of the inquisitors' pyres.

There is no abstract Evil; you have to understand that! Its roots are here, all around us, in this herd that goes on chewing and having a good time only an hour after a murder!

That's the hardest thing of all--never to become cynical, never to lose faith, never to become indifferent.