Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.
“Those who reject integration programs in the long term have as little right to stay in Germany as a hate preacher paid from abroad in a mosque.”
“A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer finds out what a novel is about, and the job becomes one of understanding and deepening or sharpening what is already written. That is finding the theme.”