Science is still only a candle glimmering in a great pitch-dark cavern.

It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator.

You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.

Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.

There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.

Men do not live by truth alone; they also need lies: those that they invent freely, not those that are imposed on them; those that appear as they are, not smuggled in beneath the clothes of history. Fiction enriches their existence, completes them and, fleetingly, compensates them for this tragic condition which is our lot: always to desire and dream more than we can actually achieve.

A novel which persuades us of its truth is true however full of lies it may be