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.

The Initial Mystery that attends any journey is: how did the traveler reach his starting point in the first place?

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

Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.

Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.

True revolutions in art restore more than they destroy.

I'll lie here and learn How, over their ground, Trees make a long shadow And a light sound.