Wisdom worth sharing, words worth remembering.
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.
To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth it means to discover a truth.
The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
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.
People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder but because they're going deaf it has to be played louder still.
Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.
A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.
Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.
You can understand nothing about art particularly modern art if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.
There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone for someone pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.
The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.
Happiness is the longing for repetition.
