The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.

Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published.

An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can.

Education in the United States is a passion and a paradox. Millions want it, and commend it, and are busy about it. At the same time they degrade it by trying to get it free of charge and free of work.

Writing, at least a craft and at its best an art, aspiring to the unique, is the most difficult to learn.

You never step in the same river of thought twice, because neither you nor it are the same.

Maxims in times of danger are useless, experience is incommunicable. The knotted strands of life, desire, assumptions, and moral codes cannot be unsnarled; they can only be cut, which is what happens when an air raid occurs, with a silencing fortissimo like the finale of a Beethoven symphony.