Literary theories will not make a writer write.
The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own.
The cliche is dead poetry.
A bad memory is the mother of invention.
The cliché is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in clichés, so that English literature is always in danger of being poisoned by its own secretions.
Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
Those who have money think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know it is money.
To think someone can go out and sell something about you is really disgusting. I'm much more careful now.
Exploration is the physical expression of the Intellectual Passion. And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and explore. . . . If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg.
The thing that's weird is that we thought it was funny. We expected people to get the joke - that we [with Andrew Ridgeley] were two guys really making asses of ourselves.
Eve had one advantage over all the rest of her sex. In his wildest moments of rage Adam never could accuse her of being 'just like her mother!