How do I know what I have to say wntil I see what I have said?

Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom.

One's favorite book is as elusive as one's favorite pudding.

Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.

A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist.

A facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade, every type of dubiousness.

Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.