What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.

There has been, is, and always will be every conceivable type of person.

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

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.

The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.

The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.