“Write me a creature that thinks as well as a man or better than a man, but not like a man.”
“To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.”
“Is it better to drive a fellow-creature to despair than to transgress a mere human law, no man being injured by the breach?”
“There’s nothing worse than writing. There’s nothing better than writing. It’s like the man you hate to love, love to hate and never really come to terms with any of the feelings.”
“any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man”
“It knew these things the same way a dog knows well the heart of the man it loves and understands it in better ways than the man could ever hope.”