And immediately I regretted it.

I thought how paltry, how vulgar, what a mean act!

I despised myself and the voices of my accursed human education. - D.H. Lawrence

The aggressiveness of force is thoroughly disinterested; unmotivated; it wills only its own will; it is pure irrationality.

To base a novel on a sustained meditation goes against the spirit of the twentieth century, which no longer likes to think at all.

NOVEL. The great prose form in which an author thoroughly explores, by means of experimental selves (characters), some themes of existence.

The novelist makes no great issue of his ideas. He is an explorer feeling his way in an effort to reveal some unknown aspect of existence. He is fascinated not by his voice but by a form he is seeking, and only those forms that meet the demands of his dream become part of his work. Fielding, Sterne, Flaubert, Proust, Faulkner, Céline.