Bigger Things Than The State Will Fall,

Before I Write Down One Word, I Have To Have The Character In My Mind Through And Through. I Must Penetrate Into The Last Wrinkle Of His Soul.

It’s A Release To Know That In Spite Of Everything A Premeditated Act Of Courage Is Still Possible.

I'm Plotting Revolution Against This Lie That The Majority Has A Monopoly Of The Truth. What Are These Truths That Always Bring The Majority Rallying Round? Truths So Elderly They Are Practically Senile. And When A Truth Is As Old As That, Gentlemen, You Can Hardly Tell It From A Lie.

It Is Not For A Care-free Existence I Am Fighting, But For The Possibility Of Devoting Myself To The Task Which I Believe And Know Has Been Laid Upon Me By God -- The Work Which Seems To Me More Important And Needful In Norway Than Any Other, That Of Arousing The Nation And Leading It To Think Great Thoughts.

Whether I Pound Or Am Being Pounded, All The Same There Will Be Moaning!