In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

We have fought this fight as long and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. There is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.

Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.

The only way you will ever permanently take control of your financial life is to dig deep and fix the root problem.

The essentials of being a person of my type lies precisely in what they think and how they think, not in what they do. Your thoughts shape you.

Time passes and the pain begins to roll in and out as though it’s a woman standing at an ironing board, passing the iron back and forth, back and forth across a white tablecloth.

No creature needs to be threatened with death to act in accord with its own nature

I don't have time to distinguish between the unfortunate and the incompetent.

Light love is desire of pleasure; great love is fear of being alone.

I have a sense that many Americans, especially those like me with European or foreign parents, feel they have to invent their families just as they have to invent themselves.

We do not have to make the Bible relevant - it already is! But we do have to show its relevance.