Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
Man is a thought-adventurer.
One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.
Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that.
If you try to nail anything down, in the novel, either it kills the novel, or the novel gets up and walks away with the nail.