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

Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

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

The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.

For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten.

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.