When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.

My position is that serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict. I don’t see how art can be called art if its purpose is to frustrate humanity. To make humanity uncomfortable, yes. But intrinsically to be against humanity, that I don’t take.

If you have leaders who are prepared to incite group against group it is very easy to manufacture reasons and excuses.

I think dialects should be left alone. People should write in whatever dialect they feel they want to write. In the fullness of time, these dialects will sort themselves out.

It is only the story...that saves our progeny from blundering like blind beggars into the spikes of the cactus fence.The story is our escort;without it,we are blind.Does the blind man own his escort?No,neither do we the story;rather,it is the story that owns us.

Anybody who wants to rule a group will find that if this group is quarreling among themselves they leave you alone.

Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache