"The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent"

"The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool"

"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one"

"A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act"

"We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival"

"He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass"

"Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them"

"Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged"

"A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing"

"Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working"

"We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent"