In the creative state a man is taken out of himself.

Do you remember Italy?

Ideas are fatal to caste.

He doesn't want you to be real, and to think and to live. He doesn't love you. But I love you. I want you to have your own thoughts and ideas and feelings, even when I hold you in my arms.

Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.

A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting view-point is a symptom), this right to intermittent knowledge - I find one of the great advantages of the novel-form ... this intermittence lends in the long run variety and colour to the experiences we receive.

America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.