All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one.
Edith Sitwell's interest in art was largely confined to portraits of herself.
If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence.
The great majority of modern third-person narration is "I" narration very thinly disguised.
He's not human; he's an empty space disguised as a human.
Each age, each guilty age, builds high walls around its Versailles; and personally I hate those walls most when they are made by literature and art.