It's the only thing that keeps me going these days, travelling. Changes of scene, changes of faces

Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.

It's the only thing that keeps me going these days, travelling. Changes of scene, changes of faces

Life, after all, should go forwards, not backwards.

To read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another

Paraphrase, in the sense of summary, is as indispensable to the novel-critic as close analysis is to the critic of lyric poetry. The natural deduction is that novels are paraphrasable whereas poems are not. But this is a false deduction because close analysis is itself a disguised form of paraphrase.

I never did like working out - it bears the same relationship to real sport as masturbation does to real sex