The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation.

To say that it is without pace, point, focus, interest, drama, wit or originality is to say simply that it does not happen to be my cup of tea.

The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work.

Rosencrantz: Shouldn't we be doing something--constructive? Guildenstern: What did you have in mind? ... A short, blunt human pyramid...?

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.

A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin.

The idea that all the people locked up in mental hospitals are sane while all the people walking about are mad is merely a literary cliche, put about by people who should be locked up. I assure you there is not much in it. Taken as a whole, the sane are out there the sick are in here. For example you are in here because you have delusions that sane people are put in mental hospitals.