“You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.”
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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.
People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.
Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.
Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.
