“Any man's life, told truly, is a novel...”
“How truly novel. The emotional life of furniture. I never.”
“The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.”
“I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any. ”
“There is a good life. The goodnews is that you can live that good life. The good life is the happy life. To live this good life, be happy! A truly happy man is a good man.”
“Life is a challenge" he once told me, "and only those who rise to the challenge truly know what it means to live.”