There is no plan. All is hazard. And the only thing that will preserve us is ourselves.

There are some men who are consoled by the idea that there are women less attractive than their wives; and others who are haunted by the knowledge that there are more attractive.

On the whole, dialogue is the most difficult thing, without any doubt. It's very difficult, unfortunately. You have to detach yourself from the notion of a lifelike quality. You see, actually lifelike, tape-recorded dialogue like this has very little to do with good novel dialogue. It's a matter of getting that awful tyranny of mimesis out of your mind, which is difficult.

There is no plan. All is hazard. And the only thing that will preserve us is ourselves.

Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.

She's always looking for poetry and passion and sensitivity, the whole Romantic kitchen. I live on a rather simpler diet.' 'Prose and pudding?''I don't expect attractive men necessarily to have attractive souls.

I read and I read; and I was like a medieval king, I had fallen in love with the picture long before I saw the reality.