It is less the business of the novelist to tell us what happened than to show how it happened.
I shall never be as old as I was between 20 and 30.
Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.
How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
Life — how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough.