Revolution is just one crowd taking power from another.

The crooked little tomato branches, pulpy and pale as if made of cheap green paper, broke under the weight of so much fruit; there was something frantic in such fertility, a crying-out like that of children frantic to please.

What you haven't done by thirty you're not likely to do. What you have done you'll do lots more.

We are most alive when we're in love.

You always find things you didn't know you were going to say, and that is the adventure.

Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.

Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.