Plays...Maidens aspiring to Godheads and vice versa!

No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable.

I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead.

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.

If you took away everything in the world that had to be invented, there'd be nothing left except a lot of people getting rained on.

I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it, really, and getting recognised by the small number of people that know what you did.

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.