To reflect the entire spectrum, the dynamics of the adventure novel must be invested with a philosophic synthesis of one kind or another.

We have long become overgrown with calluses; we no longer hear people being killed. ("X")

A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading.

Now I no longer live in our clear, rational world; I live in the ancient nightmare world, the world of square roots of minus one.

The highly complex, almost mathematical, nature of music creates for it an ironclad protection against the microbes of dilletantism, which penetrate much more easily into the fields of painting, literature, and the theater.

The knife is the most permanent, the most immortal, the most ingenious of man's creations. The knife was a guillotine; the knife is a universal means of resolving all knots.

True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.