Bad literature is a form of treason.

Bad literature . . . is a form of treason.

Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair.

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.

Is there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin?