There is only one school of literature - that of talent.

A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.

Imagination without knowledge leads no farther than the back yard of primitive art, the child's scrawl on the fence, and the crank's message in the market place. Art is never simple.

I don't want an elderly gentleman from Vienna with an umbrella inflicting his dreams upon me.

The general impression is that fifteen year-old Dolly remains morbidly uninterested in sexual matters, or to be exact, represses her curiosity in order to save her ignorance and self-dignity.

The clumsiest literal translation is a thousand times more useful than the prettiest paraphrase.

I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze I cannot get out, said the starling