Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.
When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.
The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.
Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts.
If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.
