I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

At midnight tears Run into your ears.

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

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

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

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 have lost faith in universal panaceas - work is the one thing in which I really believe.