Everything is politics.
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace
People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.