Read Blake Or Go To Hell, That's

The Bible Is Not Interested In Arguing, Because If You State A Thesis Of Belief You Have Already Stated It's Opposite; If You Say, I Believe In God, You Have Already Suggested The Possibility Of Not Believing In Him. [p.250]

Nobody Is Capable Of Of Free Speech Unless He Knows How To Use Language, And Such Knowledge Is Not A Gift: It Has To Learned And Worked At.

This Story Of Loss And Regaining Of Identity Is, I Think, The Framework Of All Literature.

The Pursuit Of Beauty Is Much More Dangerous Nonsense Than The Pursuit Of Truth Or Goodness, Because It Affords A Stronger Temptation To The Ego.

The Twentieth Century Saw An Amazing Development Of Scholarship And Criticism In The Humanities, Carried Out By People Who Were More Intelligent, Better Trained, Had More Languages, Had A Better Sense Of Proportion, And Were Infinitely More Accurate Scholars And Competent Professional Men Than I. I Had Genius. No One Else In The Field Known To Me Had Quite That.