The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.

The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

Be still when you have nothing to say when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.