Out Of Dostoevsky: Kafka. Out Of Tolstoy:

As To The State, From My Point Of View, The Measure Of A Writer's Patriotism Is Not Oaths From A High Platform, But How He Writes In The Language Of The People Among Whom He Lives .

I'm Neither Catholic Not Protestant. Protestant Sounds Good But I Don't Think I Am.

I Always Adhered To The Idea That God Is Time, Or At Least That His Spirit Is.

At Certain Periods Of History It Is Only Poetry That Is Capable Of Dealing With Reality By Condensing It Into Something Graspable, Something That Otherwise Wouldn't Be Retained By The Mind.

I Don't Believe In That Country Any Longer. I'm Not Interested. I'm Writing In The Language, And I Like The Language.