Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web, of the finest silken threads, suspended in the chamber of consciousness and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

The advantage, the luxury, as well as the torment and responsibility of the novelist, is that there is no limit to what he may attempt as an executant - no lim…

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life, in gen…

The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.

A thought is a screen, not a mirror; that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality.

And all the world is football shaped, It's just for me to kick in space, And I can see, hear, smell, touch, taste, And I've got one, two, three, four, five Sen…

At no point during his ordeal did Nero think of himself as 72% alive and 28% dead.