All the media of modern consciousness—from the printing press to radio and the movies—were used just as readily by authoritarian reactionaries, and then by modern totalitarians, to reduce liberty and enforce conformity as they ever...

Just as in the second part of a verse bad poets seek a thought to fit their rhyme, so in the second half of their lives people tend to become more anxious about finding actions,...

My first memory is of light — the brightness of light — light all around.

Literature decays only as men become more and more corrupt.

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.