Dialogue is the ideal means of showing what is between the characters. It crystallizes relationships. It should, ideally, be so effective as to make analysis or explanation of the relationships between the characters unnecessary.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Exhibitionism and a nervous wish for concealment, for anonymity, thus battle inside the buyer of any piece of clothing.

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

At the age of twelve I was finding the world too small: it appeared to me like a dull, trim back garden, in which only trivial games could be played.

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

But to be quite oneself one must first waste a little time.