Poetry is what makes the invisible appear.

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.

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

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

Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.

I have never sought the reason why I write.

The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.