anything that becomes a cult, or a mass movement, loses its moral and spiritual value. The crusade has to be personal, individual. As soon as it becomes collective it loses its purpose.

One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.

It's the thought that counts.

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

when two people unite, kindness must be mutual, or shocking things will happen.

People have been saying the novel is dead for as far back as I can remember. The novel will never die, but it will keep changing and evolving and taking different shapes. Storytelling, which is the basis of the novel, has always existed and always will.

Convention is another name for the habits of society.