Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.

Thank God for books as an alternative to conversation.

Earth, receive an honored guest; William Yeats is laid to rest. Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry.

From beginning to end Wilde performed his life and continued to do so even after fame had taken the plot out of his own hands.

My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

To discover how to be human now is the reason we follow this star.