The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
Do you remember Italy?
Expansion, that is the idea the novelist must cling to, not completion, not rounding off, but opening out.
Reverence is fatal to literature.
One has two duties - to be worried and not to be worried.
The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.