You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.

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

The older I grow the more sharply I mistrust words. So few of them have any meaning left. It is impossible to write one sentence in which every word has the bareness and hardness of bones, the reality of the skeleton.

Women will always put persons above ideas ... and so they'll always be defeated. Persons die, and ideas rule the world.

The hunger of the spirit for eternity - as fierce as a starving man's for bread - is much less a craving to go on living than a craving for redemption. Oh, and a protest against absurdity.

Truth is the only good and the purest pity. ... Men lie for profit or for pity. All lies turn to poison, but a lie that is told for pity or shame breeds such a host of ills that no power on earth can compass their redemption.

the sex even in serious pornography has less singularity than the mating of squirrels.