I get so tired of moral bookkeeping.

“[From Flowering Judas]She is, her comrades tell her, full of romantic error, fo…”

“Strolling, keeping step, his stout polished well-made boots setting themselves …”

“I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.”

“A story is like something you wind out of yourself. Like a spider, it is a web …”