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.

If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.

That is a real attitude - to see everything as being meaningful, even the less important things, to prove something, even the greater problems of life.

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.

I am an old consumer of papers. I cannot avoid reading my newspapers every morning.

The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia.

People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.