When I hear the word 'stream' uttered with such a revolting primness, what I think of is urine and not the contemporary novel. And besides, it isn't new, it is far from the dernier cri. Shakespeare used it continually, much too much in my opinion, and there's Tristram Shandy, not to mention the Agamemnon.

My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.

The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened, to any degree heightened and unlike itself, but not...an obsolete one.

A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing.

Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style.