The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape.

I think myself as a fabulist, not a critic. I realize that every writer is necessarily a critic - that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous …

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winn…

The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his w…