“I have a lot of difficulty with the idea of a story. I think it's a form that is too easy for a writer to fall into, and too easy for a reader to fall into.”

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”

“The only demand I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole life to reading my works.”