You could tell a lot about a man by the books he keeps - his tastes, his interest, his habits.

The film is the first art form capable of demonstrating how matter plays tricks on man.

Marx says that revolutions are the locomotives of world history. But the situation may be quite different. Perhaps revolutions are not the train ride, but the human race grabbing for the emergency brake.

Literature tells very little to those who understand it.

Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.

How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books!