I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

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.

. . . life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t'other from which . . .

One's favorite book is as elusive as one's favorite pudding.

She must be assured that it is not a criminal offense to love at first sight.

We may divide characters into flat and round.

There are occasions when I would rather feel like a fly than a spider.