No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.

I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not.

Everything is surprising, rightly seen.

I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.

Good writing is always new.

Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.

Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.