[A writer] should try not to be too far, personally, below the level of his work.
It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.
The craft of the novelist does lie first of all in story-telling.
nothing is more restful than conformity.
I suspect victims; they win in the long run.
Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.