“Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.”

“I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church.”

“I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.”

“Each day I love you more. Today more than yesterday but less than tomorrow. ”

“Day and night are nothing more than illusions before our eyes.”

“Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.”

“Night had come—night that she loved of all times, night in which the reflections in the dark pool of the mind shine more clearly than by day.”

“History has no more validity than a novel.”

“Come to me in my dreams, and then
By day I shall be well again!
For so the night will more than pay
The hopeless longings of the day.”

“I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day.”