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.

When the whole world is running headlong towards the precipice, one who walks in the opposite direction is looked at as being crazy.

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

Accident is design / And design is accident / In a cloud of unknowing.

No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his own personality.

The end is where we start from.

It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.