The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.

We are all potentially characters in a novel--with the difference that characters in a novel really get to live their lives to the full.

I am at home everywhere, and nowhere. I am never a stranger and I never quite belong.

I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men.

If each one of us could make just one other happy, the whole world would know happiness.

I'm a bit like a sponge. When I'm not writing I absorb life like water. When I write I squeeze the sponge a little - and out comes, not water but ink.

If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily.

For 30 years I have tried to make it understood that there are no criminals.

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.

I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.

I write fast, because I have not the brains to write slow.

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!

The world sums you up by the clothes that you wear, and treats you accordingly.

I guess the most surprising discovery was how long Gandhi remained loyal to the ideal of the British Empire, even in India.

Obviously I am not the young man who came to Hollywood in 1946

It is really the mistake of our age. We think it is enough to discover new things, but we don't realize that knowing more demands a cor­responding development of morality.

I've surrendered that to God. I'm not in a battle with what everybody else thinks anymore.

The tongue is a powerful tool. And the words we say are never forgotten. Never.

The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Football is a violent game. We are violent men.