It is less the business of the novelist to tell us what happened than to show how it happened.
Those mausoleums of inactive masculinity are places for men who prefer armchairs to women.
Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress.
The mark of genius is an incessant activity of mind. Genius is a spiritual greed.
It's all in the art. You get no credit for living.
I shall never be as old as I was between 20 and 30.