For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.

He constructed a vast labyrinthine of periods, made impassable by the piling-up of clauses upon clauses-clauses in which oversight and bad grammar seemed manifestations of disdain.

The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part of the authorities to act slowly and impersonally, in the manner of planets or vegetables.

My father gave me free run of his library. When I think of my boyhood, I think in terms of the books I read.

I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don't have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don't think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible.

To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.