The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

A nation is the same people living in the same place.

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

I think a child should be allowed to take his father’s or mother’s name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.