There Is No Method Except Yourself.

The Most Beautiful Prose Paragraph Yet Written By Any American.

I Won't Say He [shakespeare] 'invented' Us, Because Journalists Perpetually Misunderstand Me On That. I'll Put It More Simply: He Contains Us. Our Ways Of Thinking And Feeling-about Ourselves, Those We Love, Those We Hate, Those We Realize Are Hopelessly 'other' To Us-are More Shaped By Shakespeare Than They Are By The Experience Of Our Own Lives.

At Our Present Bad Moment, We Need Above All To Recover Our Sense Of Literary Individuality And Of Poetic Autonomy.

We Read, Frequently If Not Unknowingly, In Search Of A Mind More Original Than Our Own.

There Is A God, And His Name Is Aristophanes.