“When does a novel begin? The question is almost as difficult to answer as the question, when does the human embryo become a person? ”

“The key question isn't 'What is Evil?' The key question is 'When does the Good become Evil?”

“A novel does not assert anything, a novel poses questions... The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. When Don Quixote went out into the world, that world turned into a mystery before his eyes. That is the legacy of the first European novel to the entire subsequent history of the novel. The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude.”

“Question: When you’re one of the few people who can do something to fix a problem, just how responsible does that make you for it? Answer: It’s how you choose to answer that question that defines you.”

“It's ridiculous how difficult a question can be when the answer means so much.”

“What do I want?The answer to that question does not exist.”