What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?

The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.

Novelist-Citizen of Two Countries Interpreter of his Generation on both Sides of the Sea.

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

The advantage, the luxury, as well as the torment and responsibility of the novelist, is that there is no limit to what he may attempt as an executant - no limit to his possible experiments, efforts, discoveries, successes.

I always want to know the things one shouldn't do." "So as to do them?" asked her aunt. "So as to choose." said Isabel

Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.