Beware of writing to me. I always answer ... My father spent the last 20 years of his life writing letters. If someone thanked him for a wedding present, he thanked them for thanking him and there was no end to the exchange but death.

An artist must be a reactionary

If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.

I have been in the scholastic profession long enough to know that nobody enters it unless he has some very good reason that he is anxious to conceal.

that is not the last word; it is not even an apt word; it is a dead word from ten years back.

Soon someone would say the fatal words, "Well, I think it’s time for me to go to bed.

It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.