Your Strength Is Just An Accident Owed

Never Test Another Man By Your Own Weakness.

Let Them Think What They Liked, But I Didn't Mean To Drown Myself. I Meant To Swim Till I Sank -- But That's Not The Same Thing.

What Is A Novel If Not A Conviction Of Our Fellow Men's Existence Strong Enough To Take Upon Itself A Form Of Imagined Life Clearer Than Reality And Whose Accumulated Verisimilitude Of Selected Episodes Puts To Shame The Pride Of Documentary History.

Any Work That Aspires, However Humbly, To The Condition Of Art Should Carry Its Justification In Every Line.

There Is A Taint Of Death, A Flavour Of Mortality In Lies.