It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves.

In those days it was either live with music or die with noise, and we chose rather desperately to live.

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy.

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone's way but my own.

And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon to find that my first northern winter had set.

All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. The universal in the novel-and isn't that what we're all clamoring for these days?-is reached only through the depiction of the specific man in a specific circumstance.