“A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering standards)?”
“Without living, how can you know? Without knowing, how can you speak?”
“How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past?”
“And do you know, do you know that mankind can live without the Englishman, it can live without Germany, it can live only too well without the Russian man, it can live without science, without bread, and it only cannot live without beauty, for then there would be nothing at all to do in the world! The whole secret is here, the whole of history is here. Science itself would not stand for a minute without beauty”
“How can we live without the unknown before us?”