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.

Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end he disappears.

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

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

Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey.

The most heartbreakingly poignant modern love story ever written.

Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune.