“Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.”
Imagination“It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.”
Nature“Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.”
Imagination“A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.”
Home“Genius is an African who dreams up snow.”
Dreams“Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.”
Teacher“To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.”
Art“A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.”
Art“Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.”
Death“Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.”
Poetry“It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.”
Nature“I confess, I do not believe in time.”
Time“My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.”
Music“A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.”
Imagination