What America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others.

Incredible the animal that first dreamed of another animal.

I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.

Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal.

Art gives life to what history killed. Art gives voice to what history denied, silenced, or persecuted. Art brings truth to the lies of history.

Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.

Death is the great Maecenas, Death is the great angel of writing. You must write because you are not going to live any more.