A scholar's business is to add to what is known. That is all. But it is capable of giving the very greatest satisfaction, because knowledge is good. It does not have to look good or even sound good or even do good. It is good just by being knowledge. And the only thing that makes it knowledge is that it is true. You can't have too much of it and there is no little too little to be worth having. There is truth and falsehood in a comma.

The hard part is getting to the top of page 1.

Death followed by eternity the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought.

can only write about what bites you.

We've traveled too far, and our momentum has taken over; we move idly towards eternity, without possibility of reprieve or hope of explanation.

You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics?

We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.