Cynicism Is A Sure Sign Of Youth.

For Me, The Novel Is Experience Illumined By Imagination.

Too Much Principle Is Often More Harmful Than Too Little.

No Life Is So Hard That You Can't Make It Easier By The Way You Take It For Example By Seeing It How It Could Be Worse And Then Being Grateful It Isn't.

...i Had Grown Up In A World That Was Dominated By Immature Age. Not By Vigorous Immaturity, But By Immaturity That Was Old And Tired And Prudent, That Loved Ritual And Rubric, And Was Utterly Wanting In Curiosity About The New And The Strange. Its Era Has Passed Away, And The World It Made Has Crumbled Around Us. Its Finest Creation, A Code Of Manners, Has Been Ridiculed And Discarded.

Many Of The Men Who Had Come To The Wilderness To Practice Religion Appeared To Have Forgotten Its True Nature.