I never make moral judgments. All I would say is that a person was droll, or gay, or, above all, a bore. Making judgments for or against my characters bores me enormously; it doesn't interest me at all. The only morality for a novelist is the morality of his esthétique.


Paris Review interview (1956)


I never make moral judgments. All I would say is that a person was droll, or gay, or, above all, a bore. Making judgments for or against my...

I never make moral judgments. All I would say is that a person was droll, or gay, or, above all, a bore. Making judgments for or against my...

I never make moral judgments. All I would say is that a person was droll, or gay, or, above all, a bore. Making judgments for or against my...

I never make moral judgments. All I would say is that a person was droll, or gay, or, above all, a bore. Making judgments for or against my...