The Taste For Quotations (and For The

I'm More Cautious About What I Write.

And What Do I Mean By The Word 'perfection'? That I Shall Not Try To Explain But Only Say, 'perfection Makes Me Laugh.' Not Cynically, I Hasten To Add, 'with Joy.

To Read Was Precisely To Enter Another World, Which Was Not The Reader's Own, And Come Back Refreshed, Ready To Bear With Equanimity The Injustices And Frustrations Of This One. Reading Was Balm, Amusement Not Incitement.

All Great Art Contains At Its Center Contemplation, A Dynamic Contemplation.

I Don't Write Because There's An Audience. I Write Because There Is Literature.