What we need in literature today are vast philosophic horizons... we need the most ultimate, the most fearsome, the most fearless "Why?" and "What next?".

Literature is painting, architecture, and music.

We have long become overgrown with calluses; we no longer hear people being killed. ("X")

What makes you think that nonsense is bad? If they'd nurtured and cared for human nonsense over the ages the way they did intelligence, it might have turned into something of special value.

There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.

Along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradox—the single most worthy path of the fearless mind . . . .

Here I saw, with my own eyes, that laughter was the most terrible weapon: you can kill anything with laughter - even murder itself.