Characters carrying the playwright's disapproval is a un-Shakespearian burden.

At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.

Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue.

One reads for oneself and for strangers.

Originality must compound with inheritance.

The aesthetic and the agonistic are one, according to the ancient Greeks.

The inventor knows HOW to borrow.

Persuasion is a strong but subdued outrider.

King die hard, in Shakespeare and in life.

Shakespeare's exquisite imagining belies our total inability to live in the present moment.

Reviewing bad books is bad for the character – WH Auden

In the measurement world, you set a goal and strive for it. In the universe of possibility, you set the context and let life unfold.

Sometimes, you need to downgrade your dreams to upgrade your reality.

Problem-insight precedes solution insight. Someone has to recognise a problem before they start to solve the problem...

-I think you are inhuman. If I leave you, who will you go to? Would you find another lover?I said nothing.-Deny it, damn you!

When exploring London, you will come across lots of excitement by chance, so try to take everything in rather than just rushing around to all of the major tourist haunts.

It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail and give up.

From the beginning of the Radiation Laboratory, I have had the rare good fortune of being in the center of a group of men of high ability, enthusiastic and completely devoted to scientific pursuits.

Much must he toil who serves the Immortal Gods.

The greatest happiness is family happiness.