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

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.

O remember In your narrowing dark hours That more things move Than blood in the heart.

Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.

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

Intellectuals range through the finest gradations of kind and quality: from those who are merely educated neurotics, usually with strong hidden reactionary tendencies, through mediocrities of all kinds, to men of real brains and sensibility, more or less stiffened into various respectabilities or substitutes for respectability. The number of Ignorant Specialists is large. The number of hysterics and compulsives is also large.

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