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

Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.

To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.

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

Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea.

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

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.