The nightingales are sobbing in The orchards of our mothers, And hearts that we broke long ago Have long been breaking others; Tears are round, the sea is deep: Roll them overboard and sleep.

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

Attacking bad books is not only a waste of time but also bad for the character. If I find a book really bad, the only interest I can derive from writing about it has to come from myself, from such display of intelligence, wit and malice as I can contrive. One cannot review a bad book without showing off.

In the end, art is small beer. The really serious things are earning one's living so as not to be a parasite and loving one's neighbor.

Clear, unscaleable ahead, Rise the mountains of instead From whose cold, cascading streams None may drink except in dreams

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

Man is a history-making creature, who can neither repeat his past, nor leave it behind.