Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don't understand.

The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.

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

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.

Worse than madness. Sanity.

Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don't understand.

The water rose further and dressed Simon's coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble.