Only for the sake of the hopeless ones have we been given hope.
Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.
Art teaches us to see into things. Folk art and kitsch allow us to see outward from within things.
Literature tells very little to those who understand it.
All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.
The work of memory collapses time.