Like all virtuous people he imagines he must speak the truth.

I'm sure all that you've heard is just the usual gossip, invented to injure feelings rather than illuminate truth.

I am inclined to think that as I grow older I will come to be infatuated with the art of revision, and there may come a time when I will dread giving up a novel at all.

Where there must be a choice, a girl will choose Daddy. Even if you are Mommy, you concede that this must be so: you remember when you were a girl, too.

The greatest works of literature seem to embody both "art" and "morality".

I could never take the idea of religion very seriously.

Truths are the last thing you learn about your family. By the time you learn, you're no longer their child.