Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.

Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?

How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?

I really feel the novel has certain conveniences about it and has something so fundamental about it you could almost say that as long as there is paper, there is going to be the novel.

The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won't tell.

The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.

If faces were different when lit from above or below -- what was a face? What was anything?