To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.

A foreign country can best be understood through its literature.

A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.

What is very troubling is that people who have tried to write literature, even, for example, proletarian writers, seem to write within the norms of the dominant class.

When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.

... to adapt one's outlook to another person's salvation is the surest and quickest way of losing him.

Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into stupidity. The evil all arose from the fact that he had increased his needs rather than limited them; . . . As long as fresh needs continued to be created, so new frustrations would come into being. When had the decline begun? The day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty. . . . Only a moral revolution - not a social or political revolution - only a moral revolution would lead man back to his lost truth.