All novels are experimental.

There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom, operating in your chief character or characters.

I was always on my oddy knocky.

Death comes along like a gas bill one can't pay.

Keep away from physicians. It is all probing and guessing and pretending with them. They leave it to Nature to cure in her own time, but they take the credit. As well as very fat fees.

With both agents and publishers hungry for bestsellers, literature will have to end up as a cottage industry.

As we are all solipsists, and all die, the world dies with us. Only very minor literature aims at apocalypse.