Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.

Blessed be all metrical rules that forbid automatic responses, force us to have second thoughts, free us from the fetters of Self.

We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.

A writer is a maker, not a man of action: his private life is of no concern to anybody but himself, his family and his friends.

One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.

You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart.

One of the most horrible, yet most important, discoveries of our age has been that, if you really wish to destroy a person and turn him into an automaton, the surest method is not physical torture, in the strict sense, but simply to keep him awake, i.e., in an existential relation to life without intermission.