I live through risk. Without risk there is no art. You should always be on the edge of a cliff about to fall downand break your neck.

Freedom lies in being bold.

And this of course$$$ was the simplest definition of depression that he knew of: strongly disliking yourself.

Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive my ethical integrity$$$ my intellectual integrity.

Government is the right disposition of things.

It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.

The final test of a novel will be our affection for it$$$ as it is the test of our friends$$$ and of anything else which we cannot define.

They cared for no one$$$ they were outside humanity$$$ and death$$$ had it come$$$ would only have continued their pursuit of a retreating horizon.