Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.
Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.
If you liked a book, don't meet the author
Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story
Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
Literature, like nobility, runs in the blood.
The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.
Remarks are not literature.
London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other.
Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.
Moriarty is arguably the most famous super-villain in terms of literature.
No refining of one's taste in matters of art or literature, no sharpening of one's powers of insight in matters of science or psychology, can ever take the place of one's sensitiveness to the life of the earth. This is the beginning and the end of a person's true education.
I guess I try to find the humor by juxtaposing deeper themes in literature with what people perceive as being lighter, disposable children's fare in comics.
We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.
One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.
All literature is political.
If the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it's clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush administration again.
Beethoven for listening; Liszt, Chopin, and Beethoven for playing as well as Bach and Prokofiev and so on. If I kept going, this list would spiral. It's as wide as literature; in fact, it is probably wider.