To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.
Looking forward to going home, I was necessarily looking backward.
Let us run up debts. One is nobody without debts.
I never trust the airlines from those countries where the pilots believe in the afterlife. You are safer when they don't.
Fiction to me is a kind of parable. You have got to make up your mind it's not true. Some kind of truth emerges from it, but it's not fact.
The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.