The central problem of novel-writing is causality.
Unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential.
It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors.
A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
In general, every country has the language it deserves.
He consorted with prostitutes and poets...and with persons even worse.