Look if you like, but you will have to leap.

Say this city has ten million souls, Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes: Yet there’s no place for us, my dear, yet there’s no place for us.

Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel.

You will be a poet because you will always be humiliated.

Detective stories have nothing to do with works of art.

Human language is mythological and metaphorical by nature.

a culture is no better than its woods