At first critics classified authors as Ancients, that is to say, Greek and Latin authors, and Moderns, that is to say, every post-Classical Author. Then they classified them by eras, the Augustans, the Victorians, etc., and now they classify them by decades, the writers of the '30's, '40's, etc. Very soon, it seems, they will be labeling authors, like automobiles, by the year.

Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

The true men of action in our time, those who transform the world, are not the politicians and statesmen, but the scientists

Our claim to our own bodies and our world is our catastrophe.

Drama is based on the Mistake.

But he would have us most of all remember to be enthusiastic over the night. Not only for the sense of wonder it alone has to offer but also because it needs our love. For with sad eyes its delectable creatures look up and beg us dumbly to ask them to follow. They are exiles who long for a future that lies in our power.