The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.

Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr. Like many martyrs, he held extreme views.

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.

It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.

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.

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.