“What goes unnamed remains hard to correct.”
“However appalling to consider, however tedious to enact, every novel requires furniture, whether it is to be named or unnamed, for the characters will be unable to remain in standing position for the duration of the story.”
“Passion goes, Boredom remains.”
“One of the secrets, and pleasures, of cooking is to learn to correct something if it goes awry; and one of the lessons is to grin and bear it if it cannot be fixed.”
“Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.”
“I stand corrected. Afternoons are hard. Mornings are pure evil from the pits of hell,”