If you are a novelist of a certain type of termperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist except he was a Realist.
Nobody knew how to be what they were right.
If you would learn a thing, straightway declare yourself a professor of it!
It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we may admire him.
The horror of our history has purged me of opinions.
Yet everyone begins in the same place; how is it that most go along without difficulty but a few lose their way?