Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion
Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?
to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life.
But youth isn't happy. Youth is sadder than age.
The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring openly from some rotted substance within our civilization.
I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.