The tantrums of cloth-headed celluloid idols are deemed fit for grown-up conversation, while silence settles over such a truly important matter as food.

I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation

The kind of poetry to avoid in the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets at their best, wrote at their worst.

Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.

We are all citizens of history.

Wine is poetry in a bottle.

The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.