You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself. 652
The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead. 275
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything. 367
A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel’s only morality. 640
