Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.

For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.

It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.

We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries.

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.

Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It's the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.

The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences.