The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
From E. M. Forster
We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.
Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.
Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.
We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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