When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.

Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.

"Consider the matter dispassionately, Mr. Foster, and you will see that no offence is so heinous as unorthodoxy of behaviour. Murder kills only the individual- and after all, wha is an individual? ". . . ." We can make a new one with the greatest of ease- as many as we like. Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself."

Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment.... The world, you must remember, is only just becoming literate. As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium.

When the individual feels, the community reels.

Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.

The poet's place, it seems to me, is with the Mr. Hydes of human nature.