If Liberty Means Anything At All, It

For Weeks Past He Had Been Making Ready For This Moment, And It Had Never Crossed His Mind That Anything Would Be Needed Except Courage. The Actual Writing Would Be Easy. All He Had To Do Was To Transfer To Paper The Interminable Restless Monologue That Had Been Running Inside His Head, Literally For Years.

Antisemitism, For Instance, Is Simply Not The Doctrine Of A Grown-up Person.

...every Human Being Is Doomed To Die, Which Is The Greatest Of All Failures.

From A Very Early Age, Perhaps The Age Of Five Or Six, I Knew That When I Grew Up I Should Be A Writer. Between The Ages Of About Seventeen And Twenty-four I Tried To Abandon This Idea, But I Did So With The Consciousness That I Was Outraging My True Nature And That Sooner Or Later I Should Have To Settle Down And Write Books.

Sooner Or Later A False Belief Bumps Up Against Solid Reality, Usually On A Battlefield.