Dogma can in no way limit a limitless God.

The novelist is required to open his eyes on the world around him and look. If what he sees is not highly edifying, he is still required to look. Then he is required to reproduce, with words, what he sees.

I love a lot of people, understand none of them.

It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth

People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.

the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.

There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the presence of a gift. It is the nature of fiction not to be good for much unless it is good in itself.