Never To Lie Is To Have No

[a Writer] Should Try Not To Be Too Far, Personally, Below The Level Of His Work.

Short Of A Small Range Of Physical Acts-a Fight, Murder, Lovemaking-dialogue Is The Most Vigorous And Visible Inter-action Of Which Characters In A Novel Are Capable. Speech Is What Characters Do To Each Other.

Solitary And Farouche People Don't Have Relationships; They Are Quite Unrelatable.

We Desert Those Who Desert Us; We Cannot Afford To Suffer; We Must Live How We Can.

The Slight Sense Of Degeneracy Induced By Reading Novels Before Luncheon