"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray
“the house of fiction has...not one window, but a million...every one of which has been pierced, or is still pierceable...by the need of the individual vision and by the pressure of the individual will.”
– Henry James,
The Portrait of a Lady
"If he was to solve the mystery of Marlborough—and there was a mystery, for he felt it like two huge dark wings hovering over the entire community—he must do it all by himself."
Herbert Gorman,
The Place Called Dagon
“To ride a bicycle properly is very like a love affair—chiefly it is a matter of faith. Believe you do it, and the thing is done; doubt, and, for the life of you, you cannot.”
― H.G. Wells,
The Wheels of Chance