Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness.

The difficulty with humourists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't whichever seems likelier to win an effect.

The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors.

[I]n my own case at least I feel my professional need for freedom of speech and expression prejudices me toward a government whose constitution guarantees it.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Sex is like money only too much is enough.