Good-byes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say good-bye to; this hurts, you feel, this must not happen again.

Solitary and farouche people don't have relationships; they are quite unrelatable.

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

Love of privacy - perhaps because of the increasing exactions of society - has become in many people almost pathological.

Dialogue should show the relationships among people.

Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.

Story involves action. Action towards an end not to be foreseen (by the reader) but also towards an end which, having been reached, must be seen to have been from the start inevitable.