You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

How goodness heightens beauty!

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

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.

No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.