Dialogue should show the relationships among people.

All my life I have said, "Whatever happens there will always be tables and chairs"--and what a mistake.

Some ideas, like dandelions in lawns, strike tenaciously: you may pull off the top but the root remains, drives down suckers and may even sprout again.

First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all looks, silences, gestures, attitudes, a burning phrase with no context.

Silences can be as different as sounds.

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

The child lives in the book; but just as much the book lives in the child.