The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.

I'd far rather leave a thought behind me than a child. Other people can have children.

I have always found writing pleasant and don't understand what people mean by 'throes of creation.'

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.

Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?

They cared for no one, they were outside humanity, and death, had it come, would only have continued their pursuit of a retreating horizon.

The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.