But To Be Quite Oneself One Must

I Suspect Victims; They Win In The Long Run.

Meetings That Do Not Come Off Keep A Character Of Their Own. They Stay As They Were Projected.

Pity The Selfishness Of Lovers: It Is Brief, A Forlorn Hope; It Is Impossible.

... A Novel Survives Because Of Its Basic Truthfulness, Its Having Within It Something General And Universal, And A Quality Of Imaginative Perception Which Applies Just As Much Now As It Did In The Fifty Or Hundred Or Two Hundred Years Since The Novel Came To Life.

Often When I Write I Am Trying To Make Words Do The Work Of Line And Color. I Have The Painter's Sensitivity To Light. Much Of My Writing Is Verbal Painting.