Burn with that consuming fire of objectivity that forces a man to renew efforts that are doomed to failure.

A writer should not run around with a mirror for his countrymen; he should tell his society and his times things no one ever thought before.

This is another lie. We are only seeking Man. We have no need of other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is. We are searching for an ideal image of our own world: we go in quest of a planet, a civilization superior to our own but developed on the basis of a prototype of our primeval past.

Our ability to adapt and therefore to accept everything is one of our greatest dangers. Creatures that are completely flexible, changeable, can have no fixed morality.

A candidate is a person who gets money from the rich and votes from the poor to protect them from each other.

It has no meaning, what do you use to write, the only thing that is important is: what do you write. A machine to write a book instead of a writer is not invented yet, and probably will never be.

Good books tell the truth, even when they're about things that never have been and never will be. They're truthful in a different way