I'm a perfectly equipped failure.

Art is as useful as bread.

A novel is not moral in the usual sense of the word. It can be called moral when it shakes us out of our stupor and makes us confront the absolutes we believe in.

The reason I am so popular is that I give others back what they need to find in themselves. You need me not because I tell you what I want you to do but because I articulate and justify what you want to do.

Unfortunately for governments like that of Iran, when they forbid something, people become more interested.

America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?

The novels were an escape from reality in the sense that we could marvel at their beauty and perfection. Curiously, the novels we escaped into led us finally to question and prod our own realities, about which we felt so helplessly speechless.