I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.

We can't tell our life from our wish

The dark, uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed.

More and more people think of the critic as an indispensable middle man between writer and reader, and would no more read a book alone, if they could help it, than have a baby alone.

The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.