It is less the business of the novelist to tell us what happened than to show how it happened.
Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress.
Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
There is more magic in sin if it is not committed.
Writing enlarges the landscape of the mind.
Life — how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.