It's the old case against symbols: if you get them, they seem obvious and artificial, and if you don't, you miss the whole point.

Unlike most wars, which make rotten fiction in themselves - all plot and no characters, or made-up characters - Vietnam seems to be the perfect mix: the charac…

The worse we treat people in this country, the more delicately we talk about them.

I myself have not met a self-confessed liberal since the late fifties (and even then it was a tacky thing to admit, like coming from the middle class or the Mi…

It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

Nothing is harder to understand than a symbolic work. A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware…

The blessed damozel lean'd out From the gold bar of Heaven; Her eyes were deeper than the depth Of waters still'd at even; She had three lilies in her hand, An…