Everybody is a regionalist. Tolstoy is a regionalist - one is where one lives, where one writes.
He who fears to be out of the mode does not deserve to belong to himself.
I couldn't put into a capsule one thing that represents me, I don't think.
In many joyfully-admired recent novels, love appears as little more than sex-manual instruction.
It is always edifying for mortals to look at a god.
The true artist is never afraid of anything - including the glories of the past.
There is hardly a person alive who does not want to know 'what happened next,' in any context.
