Life Is A Succession Of Readjustments.

If A Theme Or Idea Is Too Near The Surface, The Novel Becomes Simply A Tract Illustrating An Idea.

What Is Being Said Is The Effect Of Something That Has Happened; At The Same Time, What Is Being Said Is In Itself Something Happening, Which Will, In Turn, Leave Its Effect.

Proust Has Pointed Out That The Predisposition To Love Creates Its Own Objects; Is This Not Also True Of Fear?

Chance Is Better Than Choice; It Is More Lordly. Chance Is God, Choice Is Man.

Style Is The Thing That's Always A Bit Phony, And At The Same Time You Cannot Write Without Style.