“Literature seemed to be everything then. People looked to it for the strength to live, for guidance, for revelation.”
“The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.”
“When it seems humanly impossible to do more in a difficult situation, surrender yourself to the inner silence and thereafter wait for a sign of obvious guidance or for a renewal of inner strength.”
“Isn't connecting people to distant lands and culture one of the strengths of good literature?”
“Sexual revelation in literature, must be tactful and must serve plot”
“Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism. The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.”