Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not.

We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.

I don't think esthetic schools are important. What is important is the use that is made of them, or whatever the individual writer does.

He constructed a vast labyrinthine of periods, made impassable by the piling-up of clauses upon clauses-clauses in which oversight and bad grammar seemed manifestations of disdain.

Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.

If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library.