Wars are made to make debt.
Literature is news that stays news.
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea.
Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.