Romanticism was more than merely an alternative to a sterile classicism; romanticism made possible, especially in art, a great expansion of the human consciousness.

When the writer has done his best, he then should proceed to do his second best.

Come with me, the river said, close your eyes and quiet your limbs and float with me into the wonder and mystery of the canyons, see the unknown and the little known, look upon the stone gods face to face, see Medusa, drink my waters, hear my song, feel my power, come along and drift with me toward the distant, ultimate and legendary sea.

We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism -- a Mongoloid metaphysic.

But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.

The basic science is not physics or mathematics but biology -- the study of life. We must learn to think both logically and bio-logically.

In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.