We Do Not Live In A Centred

The Ups And Downs Of This Cosmos May Sometimes Be Acknowledged To Be Metaphorical Ups And Downs, But Until About Newton's Time Most People Took The "up" Of Heaven And The "down" Of Hell To Be More Or Less Descriptive.

The Simple Point Is That Literature Belongs To The World Man Constructs, Not To The World He Sees; To His Home, Not His Environment.

One Of The Most Obvious Uses Of Literature, I Think, Is Its Encouragement Of Tolerance... Bigots And Fanatics Seldom Have Any Use For The Arts, Because They're So Preoccupied With Their Beliefs And Actions That They Can't See Them Also As Possibilities.

The Most Technologically Efficient Machine That Man Has Ever Invented Is The Book.

No Matter How Much Experience We May Gather In Life, We Can Never In Life Get The Dimension Of Experience That The Imagination Gives Us. Only The Arts And Sciences Can Do That, And Of These, Only Literature Gives Us The Whole Sweep And Range Of Human Imagination As It Sees Itself