What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudo-intellectual masturabtion … whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time.

The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.

The whole world is one immense woman, and we are in her very womb, we are not yet born, we are joyfully ripening.

You are afraid of it because it is stronger than you; you hate it because you are afraid of it; you love it because you cannot subdue it to your will. Only the unsubduable can be loved.

There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.

Her smile was a bite, and I was its target.

Truth is the first thing that present-day literature lacks. The writer has drowned himself in lies, he is too accustomed to speak prudently, with a careful look over his shoulder.