And none will hear the postman’s knock Without a quickening of the heart. For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?

Great art is clear thinking about mixed feelings.

It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.

Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel.

Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.

Had Greek civilization never existed ... we would never have become fully conscious.

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