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

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.

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.

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.

Metaphor, everything is sort of Metaphor of something else.

Writing good editorials is chiefly telling the people what they think, not what you think.

The problem with the drone is it's like your lawn mower. You've got to mow the lawn all the time. The minute you stop mowing, the grass is going to grow back.

My work is like a dialogue between me and unseen powers, like alchemy.

Love thou rose, yet leave it on its stem.

There are but two sorts of government: one where men show their teeth at each other, and one where men show their tongues and lick the feet of the strongest.

The dream book is always the next book.

The ball was coming down like a butterfly with sore feet.

Finance that only talks to itself & deals with each other becomes socially useless

All of us who serve in the House of Representatives and the Senate pay into Social Security.