Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

There is no love of life without despair of life.