“We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of reflection.”

“Knowledge of the thing cannot impede it; but at least we have the things we discover, if not in our hands, at least in thought, and there they are at your disposal, which inspires us to the illusory hope of enjoying a kind of dominion over them.”

“This is the only real revelation — that God is only a trick with mirrors, our dark reflection in a glass.”

“It may be that when we no longer know which way to go that we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.”

“The internet is a reflection of our society and that mirror is going to be reflecting what we see.If we do not like what we see in that mirror the problem is not to fix the mirror, we have to fix society.”

“The final test of a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.”