There Is No Method Except Yourself.

Aesthetic Value Emanates From The Struggle Between Texts: In The Reader, In Language, In The Classroom, In Arguments Within A Society. Aesthetic Value Rises Out Of Memory, And So (as Nietzsche Saw) Out Of Pain, The Pain Of Surrendering Easier Pleasures In Favour Of Much More Difficult Ones ... Successful Literary Works Are Achieved Anxieties, Not Releases From Anxieties.

In The Finest Critics One Hears The Full Cry Of The Human. They Tell One Why It Matters To Read.

The Art And Passion Of Reading Well And Deeply Is Waning, But [jane] Austen Still Inspires People To Become Fanatical Readers.

No One Yet Has Managed To Be Post-shakespearean.

Sometimes One Succeeds, Sometimes One Fails.