Literature Is Achieved Anxiety.

I Don't Believe In Myths Of Decline Or Myths Of Progress, Even As Regards The Literary Scene.

The Most Beautiful Prose Paragraph Yet Written By Any American.

It Is Hard To Go On Living Without Some Hope Of Encountering The Extraordinary.

If We Read The Western Canon In Order To Form Our Social, Political, Or Personal Moral Values, I Firmly Believe We Will Become Monsters Of Selfishness And Exploitation.

Not A Moment Passes These Days Without Fresh Rushes Of Academic Lemmings Off The Cliffs They Proclaim The Political Responsibilities Of The Critic, But Eventually All This Moralizing Will Subside.