All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority.
There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
I blundered into writing.
Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.
The thing to do is to exploit the meaning of the life you have.
I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unloveable in it, for it is all part of me.