The ordinary man is the curse of civilization.

The great majority of modern third-person narration is "I" narration very thinly disguised.

One degrades oneself sometimes in the effort not to be lonely.

Thomas Beecham was a pompous little band-master who stood against everything creative in the art of his time.

It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.

Another reason I think the novel will survive is that the reader has to work in a novel. In a film, you are presented with someone else's imagination exactly bodied out. The marvelous thing about a novel is that every reader will imagine even the very simplest sentence slightly differently.

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.