Nothing can shake my belief that this world is the fruit of a dark god whose shadow I extend.

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

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

A novel is a machine for generating interpretations.

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

Man's principle trait is a readiness to believe anything. Otherwise, how could the Church have survived for almost two thousand years in the absense of universal gullibility?

My generation knew pretty well what happened 50 years before our birth. Now I follow all the quiz programs because they are a paramount example of the span of memory of the young generation - they are able to remember everything that happened in their life but not before.