The fact, and the intuition or logic about the fact, are severe coordinates in fiction. In the short story they must cross with hair-line precision.

I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around.

It is through the acceptance of a variety of aethetic and intellectual points of view that a culture is given breadth and density.

Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.

... how much of our inner substance is it good for us to give to public griefs? The whole modern tendency to agonize over the suffering of the entire globe is surely something new.

The art of one period cannot be approached through the attitudes (emotional or intellectual) of another.

The measured blood beats out the year's delay.