We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.

Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no opinions, only the dialectic of contrary views, some of which, all of which, may be untenable and even silly. A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing.

John Kenneth Galbraith and Marshall McLuhan are the two greatest modern Canadians that the U.S. has produced.

Any book has behind it all the other books that have been written.