The novel will never die, but it will keep changing and evolving and taking different shapes.

One should always act from one's inner sense of rhythm.

Convention is another name for the habits of society.

One must have the humility and the imagination to honor all deep human experiences - not least those one has never come near to sharing.

But poetry is not to be lived, except for the few to whom it is more important than self-preservation.

[On Ian Fleming:] The trouble with Ian is that he gets off with women because he can't get on with them.

How long, I wonder, will ignorance spell purity and knowledge shame?