Making love, we are all more alike than we are when we are talking or acting.
For both writer and reader, the novel is a lonely, physically inactive affair. Only the imagination races.
it's easier to forgive your enemies than to forgive your friends.
Whenever in history, equality appeared on the agenda, it was exported somewhere else, like an undesirable.
The passion for fact in a raw state is a peculiarity of the novelist.
The comic element is the incorrigible element in every human being; the capacity to learn, from experience or instruction, is what is forbidden to all comic creations and to what is comic in you and me.