I must say Bernard Shaw is greatly improved by music.
Because I know that time is always time And place is always and only place.
Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short, staccato, like modern French prose. The typewriter makes for lucidity, but I am not sure that it encourages subtlety.
Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
In the mountains, there you feel free.
We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph.