The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

The academic mind reflects infinity, and is full of light by the simple process of being shallow and standing still.

Either criticism is no good at all (a very defensible position) or else criticism means saying about an author the very things that would have made him jump out of his boots.

[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

A great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying, 'Of course I do not like green cheese. I am very fond of brown sherry.

Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.