Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.

Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!

I really feel the novel has certain conveniences about it and has something so fundamental about it you could almost say that as long as there is paper, there is going to be the novel.

Experimental novels are sometimes terribly clever and very seldom read. But the story that appeals to the child sitting on your knee is the one that satisfies the curiosity we all have about what happened then, and then, and then. This is the final restriction put on the technique of telling a story. A basic thing called story is built into the human condition. It's what we are; it's something to which we react.

Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.

What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?

Are we savages or what?