If a novel's salient aim is virtue, I want to throw it against the wall.
People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips
Get thee to the novel! - the novel, that word-woven submarine, piloted by intimation and intuition, that will dive you to the deeps of the heart's maelstrom.
Lie, illusion, deception, she said-was that it truly, the universal language we all speak?