Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

To be a vegetarian is to disagree - to disagree with the course of things today... starvation, cruelty - we must make a statement against these things. Vegetarianism is my statement. And I think it's a strong one.

Men want all women to lie down as whores and get up as virgins.

It seems that the analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. And literature does it, unlike gossip, without mentioning names.

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise... Because this is how life is full of surprises.

The pessimism of the creative person is not decadence but a mighty passion for the redemption of man.

Literature is the memory of humanity.