It is fashionable among my friends to disparage [Conrad]. It is even necessary. Living in a world of literary politics where one wrong opinion often proves fatal, one writes carefully.... It is agreed by most of the people i know that Conrad is a bad writer, just as it is agreed that T. S. Eliot is a good writer. And now he is dead and I wish to God they would have taken some great, acknowledged technician of a literary figure and left him to write his bad stories.

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

On peut citer de mauvais vers, quand ils sont d'un grand poete.

For John Howard to get to any high moral ground he would have to first climb out of the volcanic hole he's dug for himself over the last decade. You know, it's…

The full, the monstrous demonstration that Tennyson was not Tennysonian.