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As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and a multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.

There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.

A man is only as good as what he loves.

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.