"Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject — the actual enemy is the unknown."

"An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a criti…"

"A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epo…"

"It is not good when people no longer believe in war. Pretty soon they no longer believe in many other things which th…"

"Only indifference is free. What is distinctive is never free, it is stamped with its own seal, conditioned and chained."

"There is both rhyme and reason in what I say, I have made a dream poem of humanity. I will cling to it. I will be goo…"

"Profundity must smile."

"Everything is politics."

"I, for one, have never in my life come across a perfectly healthy human being."

"To place Russian communism on the same moral level with Nazi fascism, because both are totalitarian, is, at best, sup…"