艺术是一种提出社会不敢提出的问题的方式。

It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.

"Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases, think for yourself."

I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you—it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.

Writing is the art of making the invisible visible.