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.

An audience is pleasant if you have it, it is flattering and flattering is agreeable always, but if you have an audience the being an audience is their business, they are the audience you are the writer, let each attend to their own business.

Romance is everything.

The artist works by locating the world in himself

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

Action and reaction are equal and opposite.

That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.