I didn't think; I experimented.

It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.

You don't say, 'I've done it!' You come, with a kind of horrible desperation, to realize that this will do.

But where I itty now, O my brothers, is all on my oddy knocky, where you cannot go. Tomorrow is all like sweet flowers and the turning vonny earth and the stars and the old Luna up there. ... And all that cal.

Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.

Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it.

Delimitation is always difficult. The world is one, life is one. The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure of violence - the act of love, for instance; music, for instance.