The novelist, unlike many of his colleagues, makes up a number of word-masses roughly describing himself (roughly: niceties shallcome later), gives them names and sex, assigns them plausible gestures, and causes them to speak by the use of inverted commas, and perhaps to behave consistently.
E. M. ForsterOne of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
E. M. ForsterLet us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand.
E. M. Forster