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.

The real war poets are always war poets, peace or any time.

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

It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your life.

We died like aunts of pets or foreigners.

Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain.

To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.