A novelist is an elephant, but an elephant who must pretend to forget.
We are the hero of our own story.
Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.
I am for the ones who represent sense, and so was Jane Austen.
People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.
The things of this world reveal their essential absurdity when they are put in the Venetian context. In the unreal realm of the canals, as in a Swiftian Lilliput, the real world, with its contrivances, appears as a vast folly.