“I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.”

“I think with my right hand.”

“What a gulf between the self which experiences and the self which describes experience.”

“I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.”

“No two person, ever read the same book.”

“No two persons ever read the same book.”

“Critics and academics have been trying for forty years to bury the greatest work of imaginative fiction in English. They ignore it, they condescend to it, they stand in large groups with their backs to it - because they're afraid of it. They're afraid of dragons. They have Smaugophobia. "Oh those awful Orcs," they bleat, flocking after Edmund Wilson. They know if they acknowledge Tolkien they'll have to admit that fantasy can be literature, and that therefore they'll have to redefine what literature is. And they're too damned lazy to do it.”

“Capitalism has run its course, and we shall have to look for other ideals than the ones that capitalism has encouraged.”

“He believes, but he does not believe: the impossibility of believing is the impossibility which he accepts most reluctantly, but still it is there with the other impossibilities of this world which is too full of weeping for a child to understand.”