To be a classic, a novel should be original.
While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen.
I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel sorry for my psychopaths, because I do.
Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one's other self listening.
I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.
the English, although partakers in the most variable and quixotic climate in the world, never become used to its vagaries, but comment upon them with shock and resentment as if all their lives had been spent in the predictable monsoon.