...the tourist Venice is Venice.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that - how to express this - you really must make the self.

For self-realization, a rebel demands a strong authority, a worthy opponent, God to his Lucifer.

Anybody who has ever tried to rectify an injustice or set a record straight comes to feel that he is going mad.

The happy ending is our national belief.

A novelist is an elephant, but an elephant who must pretend to forget.

The relation between life and literature - a final antimony - is one of mutual plagiarism.