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" Eroticism is like a dance: one always leads the other. "

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" Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being. "

" Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end. "

" Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary. "

" To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace. "

" Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought. "

" Nudity is the uniform of the other side... nudity is a shroud. "

" For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence? "

" To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth. "

" Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten. "

" The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead. "

" Every change of scene requires new expositions, descriptions, explanations. "

" In order to make the novel into a polyhistorical illumination of existence, you need to master the technique of ellipsis, the art of condensation. Otherwise, you fall into the trap of endless length. "

" A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea. "

" I am incapable of speaking of myself and of my life and the states of my soul, I am discreet to an almost pathological degree, and there is nothing I can do against that. "

" You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself. "

" He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him. "

" Happiness is the longing for repetition. "

" The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. "

" People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still. "

" I find myself fascinating. "

" No act is of itself either good or bad. Only its place in the order of things makes it good or bad. "

" Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it. "

" Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity. "

" There are metaphysical problems, problems of human existence, that philosophy has never known how to grasp in all their concreteness and that only the novel can seize. "

" True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. "

" Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries. "

" I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be. "

" A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality. "

" Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another. "

" The best actors do not let the wheels show. "