The revival in religion will be a rhetorical problem - new persuasive words for defaced or degraded ones.

the whole purport of literature...is the notation of the heart. Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommended to the world.

Being employed is like being loved: you know that somebody's thinking about you the whole time.

The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

Favors cease to be favors when there are conditions attached to them.

There is no need for me to curse you -the murderer survives the victim only to learn that it was himself that he longed to be rid of. Hatred is self-hatred.