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

Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.

Those who search for truth are too conscious of the maze to be hard on others...

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

Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement.

Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the earth.

The novelist, unlike many of his colleagues, makes up a number of word-masses roughly describing himself (roughly: niceties shallcome later), gives them names and sex, assigns them plausible gestures, and causes them to speak by the use of inverted commas, and perhaps to behave consistently.