In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable.
“I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.”
“I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize you've read a story or a group of poems four times, and you know, Yes, I want to go farther with this writer.”