Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.

I have said that each aspect of the novel demands a different quality of the reader. Well, the prophetic aspect demands two qualities: humility and the suspension of the sense of humour.

If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.

Man has to pick up the use of his functions as he goes along- especially the function of Love.

One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.

The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.