Americans like to make money, Canadians like to count it.
Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.
One of the most obvious uses of literature, I think, is its encouragement of tolerance... Bigots and fanatics seldom have any use for the arts, because they're so preoccupied with their beliefs and actions that they can't see them also as possibilities.
The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.
Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.
Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but the range of articulate human imagination as it extends from the height of imaginative heaven to the depth of imaginative hell.