Lawrence will go on burying his own undertakers.

At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.

Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue.

One reads for oneself and for strangers.

Originality must compound with inheritance.

The aesthetic and the agonistic are one, according to the ancient Greeks.

The inventor knows HOW to borrow.

Persuasion is a strong but subdued outrider.

King die hard, in Shakespeare and in life.

Shakespeare's exquisite imagining belies our total inability to live in the present moment.

Reviewing bad books is bad for the character – WH Auden

Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity.

The faith that anyone could move from rags to riches - with enough guts and gumption, hard work and nose to the grindstone - was once at the core of the American Dream.

NATO member states vary dramatically in their capability and in their political steadfastness.

As an improviser I'm now pretty comfortable with trios, so I'm thinking of working up to quartets.

Suffiseth this to proove my theame withall,That every bullet hath a lighting place.

I remember where I come from. I just see myself as someone who gets up and does what she loves every day - I'm not better or worse than anybody.

Getting married was the best thing I've ever done.

You can never go more than three or four hours without having something to nibble on or eat - you have to graze all day long.

I started doing radio pieces with no clear, preconceived idea, except that I have a tendency to be theatrical.

Virtue is the daughter of Religion; Repentance, her adopted child,--a poor orphan who, without the asylum which she offers, would not know where to hide her sole treasure, her tears!