“That's why I tell stories: to create readiness, to nudge the people toward receptive insight. In their present state they can stare till doomsday and not see it, listen till they're blue in the face and not get it.”

“Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?”

“If she lives till doomsday, she'll burn a week longer than the whole world.”

“For everyone who, having no artistic sense-that is to say, no submission to subjective reality-may have the knack of reasoning about art till doomsday, especially if he be, in addition, a diplomat or financier in contact with the 'realities' of the present day, is only too ready to believe literature is an intellectual game which is destined to gradually be abandoned as time goes on.”

“Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.”

“Wait till it’s my turn to tell the story! They’ll be like ‘Bear who?”