You tend to close your eyes to truth, beauty and goodness because they give no scope to your sense of the ridiculous.

If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.

I can only guess that it made the world he went back to...strangely without meaning. Though he lived in it, though he even enjoyed it, it remained utterly remote. I think it had lost sense for him. In his heart was the reflection of a lovely dream that he could never quite recall.

You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.

Life is really very fantastic, and one has to have a peculiar sense of humour to see the fun of it. [Virtue]

It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.

A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence.