We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.