“I confess, I do not believe in time.”
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It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.
A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.