Another reason I think the novel will survive is that the reader has to work in a novel. In a film, you are presented with someone else's imagination exactly bodied out. The marvelous thing about a novel is that every reader will imagine even the very simplest sentence slightly differently.

One degrades oneself sometimes in the effort not to be lonely.

The privileges of knowledge have to be bought at the cost of the consolations of ignorance.

Forgetting’s not something you do, it happens to you. Only it didn’t happen to me.

Art is a statement of one in the face of all; not a statement by one for the use of all.

That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.