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

I do not think about absent persons as often or with such intense longing as I think of places. They lie one below the other in my mind.

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

Critics have been amusing themselves for a long time by auscultating fiction for signs of heart failure.

Failures to love are irremediable and irredeemable.

In my firm, we dealt in lies. Advertising is that ... the skilful use of the truth to mislead, to spoil, to debase.

What I do not know and cannot even hope to understand before I die is why human beings are willfully, coldly, matter-of-factly cruel to each other ... What nerve has atrophied in the torturer, or worse is sensually moved?