Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

For it needs little skill in psychology to be sure that a highly gifted girl who had tried to use her gift for poetry would have been so thwarted and hindered …

I told you in the course of this paper that Shakespeare had a sister; but do not look for her in Sir Sidney Lee's life of the poet. She died young - alas, she …

I would venture to guess than Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

Lolita is a fine book, a distinguished book - all right then - a great book.

You say that you are my judge. I do not know if you are! But I tell you that you must take good care not to judge me wrongly, because you will put yourself in …

In the march up to the heights of fame, there comes a spot close to the summit in which a man reads nothing but detective stories.