The First Thing I Learned At School

I Believe Strongly In An Author's Moral Responsibility. But His First Obligation Is To Write Good Books.

For The Traveler We See Leaning On His Neighbor Is An Honest And Well-meaning Man And Full Of Melancholy, Like Those Chekhov Characters So Laden With Virtues That They Never Know Success In Life.

People Only Tell Lies When There Is Something They Are Terribly Frightened Of Losing.

A Letter Doesn't Communicate By Words Alone. A Letter, Just Like A Book, Can Be Read By Smelling It, Touching It And Fondling It. Thereby, Intelligent Folk Will Say, 'go On Then, Read What The Letter Tells You!' Whereas The Dull-witted Will Say, 'go On Then, Read What He's Written!

I Really Don't Want To Portray The Islamists As Simply Evil, The Way It's Often Done In The West.