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

Habit is not mere subjugation, it is a tender tie; when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness.

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

Don't you understand that all language is dead currency? How they keep on playing shop with it all the same.

Style is the thing that's always a bit phony, and at the same time you cannot write without style.

Memory must be patchy; what is more alarming is its face-savingness. Something in one shrinks from catching it out - unique to oneself, one's own, one's claim to identity, it implicates one's identity in its fibbing.

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.