Time heals all things but one: Time.

literature is an instrument of a culture, not a summary of it.

It is useless either to hate or to love truth - but it should be noticed.

It isn't the instrument that influences High-Minded or Low-Minded; it's the quality of Mind itself.

It's true that the young who now flock to script writing, or producing and directing, to fulfill the demands of these new devices would, in an earlier period, have been submitting to magazines and working on their first novels. But even in the midst of all these "digital products," the wonder of it is that there are still so many young writers who continue to believe in the venerable print novel as the corridor to fame and fortune.

History ... isn't simply what has happened. It's a judgment on what has happened.

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.