Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.