The general impression is that fifteen year-old Dolly remains morbidly uninterested in sexual matters, or to be exact, represses her curiosity in order to save her ignorance and self-dignity.

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

Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.

Play! Invent the world! Invent reality!

There is an old American saying 'He who lives in a glass house should not try to kill two birds with one stone.

The clumsiest literal translation is a thousand times more useful than the prettiest paraphrase.

All great novels are great fairy tales.