The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1.322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26.911 words. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

To look at a thing is very different from seeing it.

Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off... p 207

The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.

George Moore leads his readers to the latrine and locks them in.

I drink to separate my body from my soul.

Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive