“Our secrets, odd or not, are the pins that keep our inner life in place: the inform our psyche with meaning.”

“Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets?”

“Our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't.”

“And here lies the vast importance of the novel, properly handled. It can inform and lead into new places the flow of our sympathetic consciousness, and it can lead our sympathy away in recoil from things gone dead. Therefore, the novel, properly handled, can reveal the most secret places of life: for it is in the passional secret places of life, above all, that the tide of sensitive awareness needs to ebb and flow, cleansing and freshening.”

“Intuition is our inner teacher, our inner source of love, truth and wisdom, in life.”

“Introverts crave meaning, so party chitchat feels like sandpaper to our psyche.”