Expansion, that is the idea the novelist must cling to, not completion, not rounding off, but opening out.

Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life

Human beings have their great chance in the novel.

Do you remember Italy?

What the world most needs today are negative virtues - not minding people, not being huffy, touchy, irritable or revengeful.

She only felt that the candle would burn better, the packing go easier, the world be happier, if she could give and receive some human love.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.