A plot is like the bones of a person, not interesting like expression, or signs of experience, but the support of the whole.

You should not want to know the things in people's minds. If you were meant to hear them, they would be said.

We must use words as they are used, or stand aside from life.

We are always children to our mothers.

As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots.

Well, of course, people are only human... But it really does not seem much for them to be.

There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.