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

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

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

The climate of our culture is changing. Under these new rains, new suns, small things grow great, and what was great grows small; whole species disappear and are replaced.

If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.

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

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.