I had no taste for defeat - much less victory - without a fight.

Words are a medium that reduces reality to abstraction for transmission to our reason, and in their power to corrode reality inevitably lurks the danger that t…

The most appropriate type of daily life for me was a day-by-day world destruction; peace was the most difficult and abnormal state to live in.

In its essence, any art that relies on words makes use of their ability to eat away - of their corrosive function - just as etching depends on the corrosive po…

Like a bird on the wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir I have tried in my way to be free.

The worse the conditions of life the more productive the work, always provided you remember the work.

However important the struggle is and however much misery and poverty and degradation exist, we know that it cannot be more important than one human life.