All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.

People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.

she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane for the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others.

Sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your decision persists by the power of inertia. Every year it gets harder to change.

A man is responsible for his ignorance.

If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and make it the object of our game; to turn it into a toy

Extremism means borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death.