Reason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the wants one cannot explain.

Solitary and farouche people don't have relationships; they are quite unrelatable. If you and I were capable of being altogether house-trained and made jolly, we should be nicer people, but not writers.

In big houses in which things are done properly, there is always the religious element. The diurnal cycle is observed with more feeling when there are servants to do the work.

We desert those who desert us; we cannot afford to suffer; we must live how we can.

...the power-loving temperament is more dangerous when it either prefers or is forced to operate in what is materially a void. Wehave everything to dread from the dispossessed.

In 'real life' everything is diluted; in the novel everything is condensed.

Dialogue should show the relationships among people.