The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.

Man is a disgusting thing. If you beat him he starts to scream, but if it is the other one who is beaten, then he constructs a theory.

When literature becomes overly erudite, it means that interest in the art has gone and curiosity about the artist is what's important. It becomes a kind of idolatry.

I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.

As much as I can give of myself I give of myself. There's no reason why not. And when I have to hide something, I let the character speak.

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis.