for my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated.
There is no state of satisfaction, because to himself no man is a success.
It is difficult to deal successfully, he decided, with a woman whose feelings cannot be hurt.
... the novel, as a living force, if not as a work of art, owes an incalculable debt to what we call, mistakenly, the new psychology, to Freud, in his earlier interpretations, and more truly, I think, to Jung.
convictions ... are always getting in the way of opportunities.
it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.