Borrowed Illusions Are Better Than

... The Novel, As A Living Force, If Not As A Work Of Art, Owes An Incalculable Debt To What We Call, Mistakenly, The New Psychology, To Freud, In His Earlier Interpretations, And More Truly, I Think, To Jung.

The Pathos Of Life Is Worse Than The Tragedy.

That Was The Worst Of Being Poor, You Couldn't Give The Right Things In Sickness.

. . . Every Tree Near Our House Had A Name Of Its Own And A Special Identity. This Was The Beginning Of My Love For Natural Things, For Earth And Sky, For Roads And Fields And Woods, For Trees And Grass And Flowers; A Love Which Has Been Second Only To My Sense Of Enduring Kinship With Birds And Animals, And All Inarticulate Creatures.

A Good Novel Cannot Be Too Long Or A Bad Novel Too Short.