What the artist wishes to do — as far as you are concerned — is to take you out of yourself. As far as he is concerned, he wishes to express himself.

If you only would!" He added rather diffidently: "If you would not mind remembering that I am a military court of inquiry. It makes it easier for me to report to the general if you say things dully and in the order that they happened.

But responsibility hardens the heart. It must.

Ford's last Fifth Queen novel is amazing. The whole cycle is a noble conception.

I know nothing - nothing in the world - of the hearts of men. I only know that I am alone - horribly alone.

The object of the novelist is to keep the reader entirely oblivious of the fact that the author exists - even of the fact he is reading a book.

Higher than the beasts, lower than the angels, stuck in our idiot Eden.