Italy and London are the only places where I don't feel to exist on sufferance.
One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
This element of surprise or mystery the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called is of great importance in a plot.
. . . life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t'other from which . . .
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.