The passion of vanity has its own depths in the spirit, and is powerfully militant.

Dialogue is the ideal means of showing what is between the characters. It crystallizes relationships. It should, ideally, be so effective as to make analysis or explanation of the relationships between the characters unnecessary.

... any fictionis bound to be transposed autobiography.

[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet.

Forgiveness should be an act, but this is a state with him.

First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all looks, silences, gestures, attitudes, a burning phrase with no context.

But surely love wouldn't get so much talked about if there were not something in it?