I must play the instrument I've got.

I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.

The life of every citizen is becoming a business. This, it seems to me, is one of the worst interpretations of the meaning of human life history has ever seen. Man's life is not a business.

Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish. The real tedium, deep tedium, is seasoned with terror and with death.

There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.

In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.