The Only Way Of Rendering Life Endurable

Literature Is A Vast Bazaar Where Customers Come To Purchase Everything Except Mirrors.

A Book , Once It Is Printed And Published, Becomes Individual. It Is By Its Publication As Decisively Severed From Its Author As In Parturition A Child Is Cut Off From Its Parent. The Book "means" Thereafter, Perforce, Both Grammatically And Actually, Whatever Meaning This Or That Reader Gets Out Of It.

Why Is The King Of Hearts The Only One That Hasn't A Moustache?

I Was Born, I Think, With The Desire To Make Beautiful Books — Brave Books That Would Preserve The Glories Of The Dream Untarnished, And Would Re-create Them For Battered People, And Re-awaken Joy And Magnanimity.

There Is Not Any Memory With Less Satisfaction Than The Memory Of Some Temptation We Resisted.