Then why do you want to know?" "Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means.

If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that's credulity.

Where else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely.

A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.

If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.

but I had also learned that freedom of speech means freedom from rhetoric.