In the course of a life devoted less to living than to reading, I have verified many times that literary intentions and theories are nothing more than stimuli and that the final work usually ignores or even contradicts them.
The central problem of novel-writing is causality.
For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.
Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.