For now, I'm supposing that all movements are equal, which they're not, except in this respect: that none of them gives a damn about artists beyond their immediate utility. Good movements will use a writer just as ruthlessly as bad ones; since they all fancy they have better things to do than worry about one man's artistic survival.

The rational man may talk a good game about suicide, but reason must give way to obsession and finally squalor before he can actually do it.

Censors will try to censor a little bit more each year (because, like editors and other officious people, censors don't feel they are getting anywhere unless t…

The desire not to destroy the palace but to move into it oneself has always been the occupational curse of revolutionaries.

What life means to me is to put the content of Shelley into the form of Zola. The proletarian writer is a writer with a purpose; he thinks no more of 'art for …

I live in the USSR, work actively and count naturally on the worker and peasant spectator. If I am not comprehensible to them I should be deported.

We had a dim premonition that power-mad gangsters would one day use art itself as a way of deadening men's minds.