America has a new delicacy, a coarse, rank refinement.
The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
Theology is simply that part of religion that requires brains.
A tragedy means always a mans struggle with that which is stronger than man.
Aesthetes never do anything but what they are told.
Every great literature has always been allegorical - allegorical of some view of the whole universe. The 'Iliad' is only great because all life is a battle, the 'Odyssey' because all life is a journey, the Book of Job because all life is a riddle.