E. M. Forster

History develops, art stands still.

The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.

Loyalism, or Unionism, or Protestantism, or whatever you want to call it, in Northern Ireland - it operates not as a class system, but a caste system.

I just had an idea that went right over my head.

As our expedition to New York seems likely to be attended with a very fatal Consequence, and ourselves haply censured for undertaking it without assurance of success.