I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else?

At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished.

Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth,' said his cousin. 'But we seem to have no other.

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

It is better to be drunk with loss and to beat the ground, than to let the deeper things gradually escape.

Most of the pleasure of making a book would go if it held nothing to be shared by other people. I would write for a few dozen people, and sometimes it seems that I do so, but I would not write for no-one.

When I die, people will say it is the best thing for me. It is because they know it is the worst. They want to avoid the feeling of pity. As though they were the people most concerned!