I am not sure that the best way to make a boy love the English poets might not be forbid him to read them and then make sure that he had plenty of opportunities to disobey you.

That is one of the functions of art: to present what the narrow and desperately practical perspectives of real life exclude.

The literary man re-reads, other men simply read.

Men do not long continue to think what they have forgotten how to say.

It is very rarely that a middle-aged man finds an author who gives him, what he knew so often in his teens and twenties, the sense of having opened a new door.

To be stories at all they must be a series of events: but it must be understood that this series - the plot, as we call it - is only really a new whereby to catch something else.

I have won.

Faith is not complacent; faith is action. You don’t have faith and wait. When you have faith, you move.

Even God used silence as a strategy.

My life is too tight, he wanted to say. My skin is too tight. The walls are too tight.

There are joys so complete, so all perfect, that one should not survive them.

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.

While the human gaze becomes more and more fixed, losing some of its natural speed and sensitivity, photographic shots, on the contrary, become even faster.

An idea is like a cold germ: sooner or later someone always catches it.

Science fiction really is the only genre that lets you use your imagination without limitations.

Laying underneath the stars Can be so much fun Especially when you're feeling good When you're with the one you love.