Our most noted satirists are true columnists and their opinions can be worth more than any well-documented exposé.

Books always speak of other books.

Our most noted satirists are true columnists and their opinions can be worth more than any well-documented exposé.

My collection of rare books concerns only books that don't tell the truth.

Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: You have to learn the rhythms of respiration - acquire the pace. Otherwise you stop right away.

I am not on Facebook and on Twitter because the purpose of my life is to avoid messages. I receive too many messages from the world, and so I try to avoid that.

If culture did not filter, it would be inane - as inane as the formless, boundless Internet is on its own. And if we all possessed the boundless knowledge of the Web, we would be idiots! Culture is an instrument for making a hierarchical system of intellectual labor.