Dialogue should convey a sense of spontaneity but eliminate the repetitiveness of real talk.

The paradox of romantic love -- that what one possesses, one can no longer desire -- was at work.

The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.

... it appears to me that problems, inherent in any writing, loom unduly large when one looks ahead. Though nothing is easy, little is quite impossible.

nothing is more restful than conformity.

For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.