"Irrepressible violence is neither sound and fury, nor the resurrection of savage instincts, nor even the effect of resentment: it is man re-creating himself. The rebel's weapon is the proof of his hum…"

"I do not give a damn about the dead. They died for the [Communist] Party and the Party can decide what it wants. I practice a live man's politics, for the living."

"Man is a useless passion, but he is a passion for nothing."

"The goal of life is to live it, and the goal of art is to show it."

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."