Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Over time, naturally, you lose your innocence from gaining knowledge. You can't be innocent forever, but there's something in innocence you need to regain to be creative.
Innocence as we understand it in our culture is very theatrical. The flip side is, if you're charming enough, you can get away with anything.
Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.
I have abused language. I love it, and I abuse it... I don't write just to be clever. But sometimes I do. And if you don't have an understanding of the language, then the way in which it's bent doesn't actually register.
Foreign-language books are sometimes more beautiful when you can't tell what's being said. It's like you ruin it by reading.
Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
When language fails, violence becomes a language; I never had that feeling.
There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.