I learned a little of beauty-- enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth...

“Poetry is dying first. It'll be absorbed into prose sooner or later.”

“Now he realized the truth: that sacrifice was no purchase of freedom. It was li…”

“But an inferior talent can only be graceful when it's carrying inferior ideas. …”

“How good to have things like this, to be worshipped again, to pretend to have a…”