Advances in technology neither impede nor augment literature.
The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap.
He who cries, 'What do I care about universality? I only know what is in me,' does not know even that.
The trouble with happiness is that it never notices itself.
History ... isn't simply what has happened. It's a judgment on what has happened.
One must avoid ambition in order to write. Otherwise something else is the goal: some kind of power beyond the power of language. And the power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.