I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.

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

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss, Goethe said; a correct answer, Gertrude would have said, is like a slap in the face.

We died like aunts of pets or foreigners.

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

Read at whim! Read at whim!

The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.