“The strangest experiences in life are apt to lose their effect if dwelt upon long enough. ("Furze Hollow")”
“Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.”
“Transgressions are to be understood and corrected, not dwelt upon or agonized over.”
“Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.”
“The empty rooms always had a terribly depressing effect upon my father when he considered, he said, that the person who dwelt in them had to fill them solely with his own fantasies, with fantastic objects, in order not to go out of his mind.”
“Live on berries in a hollowed-out comet lit by artificial suns long enough, and you start to have delusions about achieving enlightenment.”