It is sometimes necessary to repeat what all know. All mapmakers should place the Mississippi in the same location and avoid originality.

Art is order, made out of the chaos of life.

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.

A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.

All human accomplishment has the same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination.

I am a true adorer of life, and if I can't reach as high as the face of it, I plant my kiss somewhere lower down. Those who understand will require no further explanation.

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.