“A novelist is like a scout commissioned to go and see what is happening in the depth of the soul. He comes back and reports what he has observed. He never lives on the surface but only inhabits the darkest regions”

“The novelist is like a scout commissioned to go and see what is happening in the depth of the soul. He comes back and reports what he has observed.”

“He that studies only men, will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body. He that to what he sees, adds observation, and to what he reads, reflection, is in the right road to knowledge, provided that in scrutinizing the heart of others, he neglects not his own.”

“It is like looking down from the cliffs of Moher into the depths. Many go down into the depths and never come up. Only the trained diver can go down into those depths and explore them and come to the surface again.”

“The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.”

“The master observes the world but trusts his inner vision. He allows things to come and go. He prefers what is within to what is without.”