I'm skeptical that the novel will be 're-invented.'

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Things don't have to change the world to be important.

I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.