It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.

After inside upheavals, it is important to fix on imperturbable things. Their imperturbableness, their air that nothing has happened renews our guarantee.

Convention was our safeguard: could one have stronger?

I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am.

To walk into history is to be free at once, to be at large among people.

Dialogue in fiction is what characters do to one another.

But surely love wouldn't get so much talked about if there were not something in it?