“It did occur to me that the effect of good literature may be as dizzying as that of alcohol.”
“Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.”
“In one sense at any rate it is more valuable to read bad literature than good literature. Good literature may tell us the mind of one man but bad literature may tell us the mind of many men.”
“Something did happen to me somewhere that robbed me of confidence and courage and left me with a fear of discovery and change and a positive dread of everything unknown that may occur.”
“Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.”
“I would argue that coffee has been far more important to literature than alcohol.”