Fear is the deep motive of abstract art - fear of a repellent civilization which is dominated by the power of things. ... who can be surprised if, more sensitive than the others, the artist is terrified by the power things have acquired over us?

If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.

Novelists who treat violence and cruelty as something to be exploited for their effect, or to enjoy the pleasure of an evacuation, are carriers of a singularly unpleasant disease.

Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.

Nationalism will keep its venom until we succeed in creating an image of the nations of the whole world as so many provinces.

When you talk of revolution ... you never talk of the day after.

She did not so much cook as assassinate food.