Whether you are really right or not doesn't matter; it's the belief that counts.

To ask an author who hopes to be a serious writer if his work is autobiographical is like asking a spider where he buys his thread. The spider gets his thread right out of his own guts, and that is where the author gets his writing.

I still have trouble identifying grammatical structures by name, though I know them as matters of usage.

The people who fear humor - and they are many - are suspicious of its power to present things in unexpected lights, to question received opinions and to suggest unforeseen possibilities.

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

And why should it not be terrifying? A little terror, in my view, is good for the soul, when it is terror in the face of a noble object.

Imagination is a good horse to carry you over the ground - not a flying carpet to set you free from probability.