It Is Useless Either To Hate Or

I Would Distinguish Between A Visitor And A Pilgrim: Both Will Come To A Place And Go Away Again, But A Visitor Arrives, A Pilgrim Is Restored. A Visitor Passes Through A Place; The Place Passes Through The Pilgrim.

To Be Any Sort Of Competent Writer One Must Keep One's Psychological Distance From The Supreme Artists.

Literature Is An Instrument Of A Culture, Not A Summary Of It.

We Are So Placid That The Smallest Tremor Of Objection Is Taken As A Full-scale Revolution.

Invention Despoils Observations, Insinuation Invalidates Memory. A Stewpot Of Bad Habits, All Of It - So That Imaginative Writers Wind Up, By And Large, A Shifty Crew, Sunk In Distortion, Misrepresentation, Illusion, Imposture, Fakery.