In Count Julian I simply proposed to create a text which would allow for diverse levels of reading.

The vitality of a culture is in its capacity to assimilate foreign influences. The culture that's defensive and closed condemns itself to decadence.

A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined products of the baroque.

Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.

The fundamental purpose of a novel like Count Julian is to achieve the unity of object and means of representation, the fusion of treason as scheme and treason as language.

The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.

In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc.

In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society's feelings, beliefs, and hopes in perfect harmony.

I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger.

As I began to discover my own truth and endeavored to possess it with CLARITY, I became more and more alienated from that which my companions held, or professed to hold.

My exile was not only a physical one, motivated exclusively by political reasons; it was also a moral, social, ideological and sexual exile.

Crying is good for the soul, or so they say.

What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark. "'Tain't good intentions what paves the road to hell: it's self-justifyin's.

For murder though it have no tongue will speak With most miraculous organ.

The grave, where sets the orb of being, sets To rise, ascend, and culminate above Eternity's horizon evermore.

The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.

Those with very loud voices in their throats are nearly incapable of thinking subtle thoughts.

The oil lobby, perhaps the most powerful lobby on earth, is almost matched by hospital owners and doctors.

I was so lucky to walk away with two Super Bowls and know that the last year was positive.

Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us.

The paperless office is possible, but not by imitating paper. Note that the horseless carriage did not work by imitating horses.