Past art is subject to change.

Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.

Turn things you've always wanted to do, into things you've done

If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

If you will not have God (and He is a jealous God), you should pay your respects to Hitler or Stalin.

Simple and faithless as a smile and shake of the hand.

Most contemporary novels are not really "written." They obtain what reality they have largely from an accurate rendering of the noises that human beings currently make in their daily simple needs of communication; and what part of a novel is not composed of these noises consists of a prose which is no more alive than that of a competent newspaper writer or government official. A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel-reader is not prepared to give.