The most original novelist now writing in English..

Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes..

A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit..

At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished..

[On writing:] What a difficult kind of work to choose! But of course one did not choose it. There was no choice..

What concerns anyone so much as the time he has to live?.

Never is a long word..

There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best..

We do not discuss the members of our family to their faces..

Civilized life exacts its toll..

some people always have a touch of youth about them..

There is more difference within the sexes than between them..

People have never lost what they think they have..

Real charity and real ability never to condemn-the one real virtue-is so often the result of a waking experience that gives a glimpse of what lies be….

The plot is not very important to me, though a novel must have one, of course. It's just a line to hang the washing on..

Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth,' said his cousin. 'But we seem to have no other..

My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me..

it is in our minds that we live much of our life..

Ah, we have to be generous to be grateful ... One has oneself to be a giver..

Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past..

As regards plot I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a plot desirable and almost necessary, I have this ….