The terrible thing is that one cannot be a Communist and not let oneself in for the shameful act of recantation. One cannot be a Communist and preserve an iota of one's personal integrity.

The strongest are those who renounce their own times and become a living part of those yet to come. The strongest and the rarest.

Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long.

The hardest thing about being a communist is trying to predict the past.

[Tyranny is] to compel men not to think as they do, to compel men to express thoughts that are not their own.

Never seek to please anyone. Seek to evolve thyself.

Hell is nothing but a place we wish God has created for our enemies, we ourselves think that he will ultimately show some kind of clemency towards us

You are privileged if you know that there is God, the only creator of Heaven and Earth because not everyone gets to understand that whist still alive.

It is impossible to disassociate language from science...To call forth a concept, a word is needed.

Are you prepared for the first wound?

Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination.

Before Guadalcanal the enemy advanced at his pleasure - after Guadalcanal he retreated at ours.

Until the church is holy there'll be no rapture - I don't care what theory of the rapture you have.

High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.

He was ordinary in a world that loved the extraordinary.