The novelist's ambition is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what they did not see, say what they did not say.
Fidelity gives a unity to lives that would otherwise splinter into thousands of split-second impressions.
Speak truth to power.
No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.
Art arises from sources other than logic." (p.32)
The eye... the point where a person's identity is concentrated.