"Plausibility, as the necessary brake and control element, has been our most essential guide."

"It is easy to argue persuasively the truism that the lessons of history are best derived from what actually happened,…"

"We look at this as the best of all possible worlds, but the French know it isn't, because most people speak English."

"People who read tend to commit fewer s, I guess. I think that one of the reasons for that isn’t just that they’re bri…"

"Though fairy-stories are of course by no means the only medium of Escape, they are today one of the most obvious and …"

"Real life is overrated. But as readers we can escape to any elsewhere our heart desires – and at present all my heart…"

"When the seas of life get rough, some readers look for escape, while others dive right in. So it is , when many book …"

"The present generation has this ingrained weakness, that it thinks that nothing discovered by the moderns is worthy t…"

"The very best proof of how much writing mattered was the forgeries. Forgery had been an ecclesiastical habit for cent…"

"Such forgeries were common enough... So unenviable was the reputation that priests had acquired in this matter that I…"