“To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.”
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A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.
Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.
To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.