To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.

I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.

A writer always begins by being too complicated—he’s playing at several games at once.