In Almost Every Marriage There Is A

You Cannot Have Both Truth And What You Call Civilisation.

The Most Essential And Fundamental Aspect Of Culture Is The Study Of Literature, Since This Is An Education In How To Picture And Understand Human Situations.

I See Myself As Rhoda, Not Mary Tyler Moore.

All Artists Dream Of A Silence Which They Must Enter, As Some Creatures Return To The Sea To Spawn.

Almost Any Tale Of Our Doings Is Comic. We Are Bottomlessly Comic To Each Other. Even The Most Adored And Beloved Person Is Comic To His Lover. The Novel Is A Comic Form. Language Is A Comic Form, And Makes Jokes In Its Sleep. God, If He Existed, Would Laugh At His Creation. Yet It Is Also The Case That Life Is Horrible, Without Metaphysical Sense, Wrecked By Chance, Pain And The Close Prospect Of Death. Out Of This Is Born Irony, Our Dangerous And Necessary Tool.