True stories deal with hunger, imaginary ones with love.

Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.

It isn’t happiness I am concerned with but experience.

One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.

It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the reader that the story he is telling is as interesting as universal history.

When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.

A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.