I have to do this, as long as it is at all possible; for if those who are obliged to look after commas had always made sure they were in the right place, then Shanghai would not be burning.

This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.

The agitator seizes the word. The artist is seized by it.

A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography.

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

He who sleeps half a day has won half a life.

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.