I Try To Avoid Experience If I

Satire's Nature Is To Be One-sided, Contemptuous Of Ambiguity, And So Unfairly Selective As To Find In The Purity Of Ridicule An Inarguable Moral Truth.

Facts Are The Images Of History, Just As Images Are The Facts Of Fiction.

My Memories Pale As I Prevail Upon Them Again And Again. They Become More And More Ghostly. I Fear Nothing So Much As Losing Them Altogether And Having Only My Blank Endless Mind To Live In.

A Book Begins As A Private Excitement Of The Mind.

I Have Committed Many Sins In My Life. This Precise Sin-the Sin Against Poets-is Without Absolution.