To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books of metaphysics. The reason is very simple; it is merely that the novel is more true than they are.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

Fairy tales are more than true — not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten.