The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.
Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.
I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.