Being in love is something like poetry. Certainly, you can analyze and expound its various senses and intentions, but there is always something left over, mysteriously hovering between music and meaning.
Muriel SparkFiction to me is a kind of parable. You have got to make up your mind it's not true. Some kind of truth emerges from it, but it's not fact.
Muriel SparkFrom my experience of life I believe my personal motto should be: 'Beware of any man bringing flowers.
Muriel Spark