An improper art aims at exciting in the way of comedy the feeling of desire but the feeling which is proper to comic art is the feeling of joy.

Wipe your glasses with what you know.

As you are now so once were we.

By an epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or memorable phrase of the mind itself. He believed it was for the man of letters to record these epiphanies with extreme care (saving them for later use, that is), seeing that they themselves are the most delicate and evanescent of moments.

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.

Deal with him, Hemingway!