If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay!
Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature
I have never described this to you before, not so much, I don't think, from lack of truthfulness as that, just naturally, one is not going to explain to people at large that from time to time one vomits up a small rabbit.
You're like a witness. You're the one who goes to the museum and looks at the paintings. I mean the paintings are there and you're in the museum too, near and far away at the same time. I'm a painting. Rocamadour is a painting. Etienne is a painting, this room is a painting. You think that you're in the room but you're not. You're looking at the room, you're not in the room.
Salt and the center of the world have to be there, in that spot on the tablecloth.
The short-story writer knows that he can't proceed cumulatively, that time is not his ally. His only solution is to work vertically, heading up or down in literary space.
Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves?
The mind makes the nobleman, and uplifts the lowly to high degree.
What being home-schooled has taught me, more than anything, is what a waste of a life high school is.
Every human longs for peace and love.
Shoob-be-doo-be-doo-da-day.