for better or worse, it is the commentator who has the last word.

I do not begin my novel at the beginning, I do not reach chapter three before I reach chapter four, I do not go dutifully from one page to the next, in consecutive order; no, I pick out a bit here and a bit there, till I have filled all the gaps on paper. This is why I like writing my stories and novels on index cards, numbering them later when the whole set is complete. Every card is rewritten many times.

My answer to your question'Does the writer have a social responsibility?' is NO.You owe me ten cents, sir.

You see, she had absolutely nowhere else to go.

Resemblances are the shadows of differences. Different people see different similarities and similar differences.

There is only one real number: one. And love, apparently, is the best exponent of this singularity.

A philistine is a full-grown person whose interests are of a material and commonplace nature, and whose mentality is formed of the stock ideas and conventional ideals of his or her group and time.