The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.

That one individual should awaken in another memories that belong to still a third is an obvious paradox.

We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the universe.

Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life.

If I write a fantastic story, I'm not writing something willful. On the contrary, I am writing something that stands for my feelings, or for my thoughts. So that, in a sense, a fantastic story is as real and perhaps more real than a mere circumstantial story. Because after all, circumstances come and go, and symbols remain.

If you using local color in an unobtrusive way, it is all for the good. But if you stress it, the whole thing is artificial. But it should be used, I mean, it's not forbidden. But you don't have to stress it.

The central problem of novel-writing is causality.