Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.

A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.

If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.

With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.

And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass

It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in suspense or reserved. This hypothesis would explain the enormous content of the brain as a maker or presenter of images.