Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.

If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.

If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.

Literature is the immortality of speech.

Literature is the immortality of speech.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.

You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.

For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the read more

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.