Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into stupidity.

I admire Freud a great deal as a person and thinker. Despite everything, I find his work very, very rich, but I think that for women he has been absolutely disastrous. And even more so, everyone who came after him.

What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.

It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all the contradictions of the world.

Literature is always what the dominant ideology recognizes as literature.

Women aren't more easily swayed by fascism than men, but I believe that their situation makes them in effect more slavish than men.

He reflected. 'I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!