A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is not waking thoughts although it is written and thought with waking thoughts.

More and more I like to take a train. I understand why the French prefer it to automobiling it is so much more sociable, and of course these days so much more of an adventure, and the irregularity of its regularity is fascinating.

It is very easy to love alone.

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night.

I like loving. I like mostly all the ways one can have of having loving feelings in them. Slowly it has come to be in me that any way of being a loving one is interesting and not unpleasant to me.

What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?