All time is unreedemable.

He is haunted by a demon, a demon against which he feels powerless, because in its first manifestation it has no face, no name, nothing; and the words, the poem he makes, are a kind of exorcism of this demon.

No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.

I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.

I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

The greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards though we must remember that whether it is literature or not can be determined only by literary standards.