My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.

We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.

Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.

All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.

Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?