Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets. The one sound test of Milton is that he functions as a Milton.