The Most Beautiful Prose Paragraph Yet Written

I Realized Early On That The Academy And The Literary World Alike - And I Don't Think There Really Is A Distinction Between The Two - Are Always Dominated By Fools, Knaves, Charlatans And Bureaucrats.

The Morality Of Scholarship, As Currently Practiced, Is To Encourage Everyone To Replace Difficult Pleasures By Pleasures Universally Accessible Precisely Because They Are Easier.

I Take It That A Successful Therapy Is An Oxymoron.

No One Yet Has Managed To Be Post-shakespearean.

To Be A Poet Did Not Occur To Me. It Was Indeed A Threshold Guarded By Demons.