She is sadder and sadder, and for a man there is no balm more soothing than the sadness he has caused a woman.

I think, therefore I am' is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.

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

Our historical experience teaches us that men imitate one another, that their attitudes are statistically calculable, their opinions manipulable, and that man is therefore less an individual (a subject) than an element in a mass.

But if God is gone and man is no longer master, then who is master?

I remember that the day I finished 'The Angels,' part three of 'The Book of Laughter and Forgetting', I was terribly proud of myself. I was sure that I had discovered the key to a new way of putting together a narrative.

Nudity is the uniform of the other side... nudity is a shroud.