Often I have thought of the day when I gazed for the first time at the sea. The sea is vast, the sea is wide, my eyes roved far and wide and longed to be free. But there was the horizon. Why a horizon, when I wanted the infinite from life?

We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

I don't think anyone is thinking long-term now.

In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.

To allow only the kind of art that the average man understands is the worst small-mindedness and the murder of mind and spirit. It is my conviction that the intellect can be certain that in doing what most disconcerts the crowd, in pursuing the most daring, unconventional advances and explorations, it will in some highly indirect fashion serve man - and in the long run, all men.

Everything is politics.