The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text.

Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: you have to learn the rhythm of respiration$$$ acquire the pace; otherwise you stop right away.

A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel$$$ which is a machine for generating interpretations.

I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind$$$ a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please$$$ she intoxicated.

As long as nothing happens between them$$$ the memory is cursed with what hasn't happened.

Why did God make me an outcast and a stranger in mine own house?

How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word.

Comrade$$$ you and I can never be satisfied with sitting down before a great human problem and saying nothing can be done. We must do something. That is the reason we are here on Earth.