What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?
Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear will be lurking.
There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
The Expulsion from Eden is an act of vindictive womanish spite; the Fall of Man, as recounted in the Bible, comes nearer to the Fall of God.
When in doubt, choose greatness.
When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.