Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.
Flaubert's ParrotWe are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair.
The Golden CompassNo one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.
The Art of LiteratureWar is the most painful act of subjection to the laws of God that can be required of the human will.
War and Peace