What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
E. M. ForsterAt night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
E. M. ForsterArt for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden. It is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.
E. M. Forster