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.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.

Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.

Solidity, caution, integrity, efficiency. Lack of imagination, hypocrisy. These qualities characterize the middle classes in everycountry, but in England they are national characteristics.

One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.

How can I know what I think till I see what I say?