Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
We shall perish by guile just as we slew.
I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
It is the second job of literature to create myth. But its first job is to destroy it.
The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
People can die of mere imagination.
My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
I was much more interested in literature than I was in art. I just got into art by mistake.
The criminal is trying to solve his immediate problems.
Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.
It is easy to kill when you don't see your victim
Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
It's a great thing when you feel that you recognize yourself, deeply and movingly, in a work of literature.
I think that literature quite often emerges from areas where there has been a lack of articulation, like women's writing.
The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.
Evil is only good perverted.
It is reasonable to assume that, by and large, what is not read now will not be read, ever. It is also reasonable to assume that practically nothing that is read now will be read later.
Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.
As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't.
Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.