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.

The human landscape of the New World shows a conquest of nature by an intelligence that does not love it.

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

There is a curious law of art... that even the attempt to reproduce the act of seeing, when carried out with sufficient energy, tends to lose its realism and take on the unnatural glittering intensity of hallucination.

We do not live in a centred space any more, but have to create our own centres.

War appeals to young men because it is fundamentally auto-eroticism.

Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature.