We're swallowed up only when we are willing for it to happen.

I don't for a minute think that Hitler is like Joan of Arc. But I think that at that deep level of tropisms, Hitler or Stalin must have experienced the same tropisms as anyone else.

All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is.

The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.

One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.

Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.

Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.