The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

She knew that there were all kinds of ways to make a conquest and that one of the surest roads to a woman's genitals was through her sadness.

The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history.

No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.

Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity.

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.

What does it mean to live in truth? Putting it negatively is easy enough: it means not lying, not hiding, and not dissimulating.