"It was all those biographies in me yelling, “We want out. We want to tell you what we’ve done to you."

"Hitler, no doubt, will soon disappear, but only at the expense of strengthening Stalin, the Anglo-American millionaires and all sorts of petty fuhrers of the type of de Gaulle. All the national moveme…"

"Let us admit that most of us writers feel an essential aversion to politics. By taking such a position, however, we accept the perverted principle of specialization, according to which some are paid t…"

"The skills I had learned for prose didn’t work in film. Those telling details, they’re completely different. Or the fact of these inner monologues in which you can write a whole book. Whereas prose is…"

"The construction of churches or synagogues in the Mussulman territory is unlawful, this being forbidden in the traditions:—but if places of worship originally belonging to Jews or Christians be destro…"