Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

The headmistress was an able instructress in French and history and we learned with her as fast as fear could teach us.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Nothing dates like hate and in literature a little of it goes a very long way.

A great writer created a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.

The shock, for an intelligent writer, of discovering for the first time that there are people younger than himself who think him stupid is severe.