A man can write one book that can be great, but this doesn't make him a great writer-just the writer of a great book. . . I think a writer has to extend very widely, as well as plunge very deep, to be a great novelist.

A Haydn symphony had a meaning for the social group that listened to it. A Mahler symphony had a meaning for the man who composed it. Here is the difference between the classical and romantic attitudes to art.

Fumbling for a word is everybody's birthright.

For the serious artist does not satisfy needs

And to all others in this story profound shooms of lip music brrrrrr. And they can kiss my sharries.

Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles.

Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.