The greatest ideas are the simplest.

Are we savages or what?

I also know Patrick White in Australia, both personally and as a writer, and Salman Rushdie in India.

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

Latin, as we all know, ultimately broke down into Spanish, Italian, French, and so on. One wonders whether there will be an imperial parallel with English breaking down into, shall we say, North American, European, Australian, and so on. On the other hand, there is this immense, inward-driving influence of radio and television that is bringing us all back together. One could say it's a fight between the two: a fight between regionalism and the standardization through communication.

Ralph... would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.

I do think that art that doesn't communicate is useless.