I do think that art that doesn't communicate is useless.
One tries to tell a truth, and one hopes that the truth has a general application rather than just a specific one.
Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
I don't think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work.
There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
There's a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.