The safest way to avoid the world is through art; and the safest way to be linked to the world is through art.

The safest way to avoid the world is through art; and the safest way to be linked to the world is through art.

Art is long, and critics are the insects of a day.

If you've been put in your place long enough you begin to act like the place.

More and more people think of the critic as an indispensable middle man between writer and reader, and would no more read a book alone, if they could help it, than have a baby alone.

Say what you like, but such things do happen - not often, but they do happen.

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.