A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.
Here is the first passionate love-letter I have ever written in my life. Strange, that my first passionate love-letter should have been addressed to a dead girl. Can they feel, I wonder, those white silent people we call the dead?
There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.
I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five