Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation.

Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.

In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.

You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.

Writing has freed me from the despair of living.