Advances in technology neither impede nor augment literature.

Death persecutes before it executes.

Language makes culture, and we make a rotten culture when we abuse words.

We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection to anything at all is taken as a full-scale revolution. Should any soul speak up in favor of the obvious, it is taken as a symptom of the influence of the left, the right, the pink, the black, the dangerous. An idea for its own sake - especially an obvious idea - has no respectability.

I can't claim to be disenchanted "with the current state of fiction" because I read so little of it. My reading is mostly drawn to history.

If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.

The trouble with happiness is that it never notices itself.