In order really to write one has to sink deep into the self and become lost there.
Dostoevsky is such a bad writer it is hard to take him seriously as a novelist, though he is a wonderful philosopher.
The sentence is the greatest human invention of civilization.
Art is amoral, whether we accept this or not; it does not take sides. The finest fictions are cold at heart.
What is money, after all? Almost nothing, when one has a sufficiency of it.
The trouble with you, Vic," he said, "is that you think of the world as a sort of huge museum with too many visitors allowed in.