Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
Either move or be moved.
The only history that matters is the history we know.
I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better.