The best criticism is the sort that tells you what you already know but had been reluctant to accuse yourself of.

No poem should be an urn to contain a meaning, but a net to catch what meanings float through the day.

Novelists want to flood, poets want to distill.

To shelter and to hide, they have resigned themselves.

Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it.

When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.

I don't like China. Even today, I still feel I have no emotional relations with this place.

I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me.

But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both.

I was the youngest. The yule lamb. The one who always got away without doing the washing up. My sister was four years older, and my brother six years.

For two years living in a neutral country I have been able to see through the haze of propaganda to reach something which my conscience tells me is the truth.

Speculator: One who bought stocks that went down.

An equal doom clipp'd Time's blest wings of peace.

The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.