One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.

People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.

The bully and his victim never quite forget their first relations.

Man can learn everything if he will but try.