The young are so much more vulnerable than the old - the stuff is still warm and malleable, it takes impressions.

No form of art repeats or imitates successfully all that can be said by another; the writer conveys his experience of life along a channel of communication closed to painter, mathematician, musician, film-maker.

Language is memory and metaphor.

Not literature alone, but society itself is wormed and rotten when language ceases to be respected not merely by advertisers and politicians, but by persons of learning and authority.

A minor symptom of wars is the cancerous growth of committees.

The young are so much more vulnerable than the old - the stuff is still warm and malleable, it takes impressions.

Great advertising is the expression of deep emotional sincerity.