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| However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged by the laws of chance -- so many odds against one that to live will be more miserable than to die. His sense of mathematics is greater than his sense of survival. But think how a sense of survival must clamor to be heard at the last moment, what excuses it must present of a totally unscientific nature. | | Uncategorized | |
| I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect -- it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman. | | Uncategorized | |
| If one is going to write about war, self respect demands that one | | Uncategorized | |
| If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask? | | Uncategorized | |
| In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. | | Uncategorized | |
| Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. | | Innocence | |
| It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself | | Life; Trust | |
| It is the story-teller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval. | | Uncategorized | |
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| Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. | | Uncategorized | |
| My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane. | | Writers | |
| No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness. | | Uncategorized | |
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| Of course, before we know he is a saint, there will have to be miracles. | | Uncategorized | |
| One of the things which danger does to you after a time is -, well, to kill emotion. I don't think I shall ever feel anything again except fear. None of us can hate anymore - or love. | | Emotion; Fear; Love | |
| Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt | | Enemies | |
| People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery. | | Courage; Men | |
| Perhaps it is only in childhood that books have any deep influence on our lives. | | Uncategorized | |
| Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved. | | Uncategorized | |
