A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.