Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.

I pity people who do not care for Society. They are poorer for the oblation they do not make.

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

Style is the thing that's always a bit phony, and at the same time you cannot write without style.

... a novel survives because of its basic truthfulness, its having within it something general and universal, and a quality of imaginative perception which applies just as much now as it did in the fifty or hundred or two hundred years since the novel came to life.

I can't see or feel the conflict between love and religion. To me, they're the same thing.

On the subject of dress almost no one, for one or another reason, feels truly indifferent: if their own clothes do not concern them, somebody else's do.