In literature, questions of fact or truth are subordinated to the primary literary aims of producing a structure of words for its own sake, and the sign-values of symbols are subordinated to their importance as a structure of interconnected motifs.

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.

We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life.

It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.

I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all know is fundamental to our society.

Literature is not a subject of study, but an object of study.