As Between Mileage And Experience Choose Experience.

The Kind Of Poetry To Avoid In The Pretty-pretty Kind That Pleased Our Grandmothers, The Kind That Longfellow And Tennyson, Good Poets At Their Best, Wrote At Their Worst.

Seriously, I Do Not Know What To Say Of This Book [ Absalom, Absalom!] Except That It Seem To Point To The Final Blowup Of What Was Once A Remarkable, If Minor, Talent… This Is A Penny Dreadful Tricked Up In Fancy Language And Given A Specious Depth By The Expert Manipulation Of A Series Of Eccentric Technical Tricks. The Characters Have No Magnitude And No Meaning Because They Have No More Reality Than A Mince-pie Nightmare.

There Are Two Kinds Of Writers; The Great Ones Who Can Give You Truths, And The Lessor Ones, Who Can Only Give You Themselves.

Reading Is Not An Operation Performed On Something Inert But A Relationship Entered Into With Another Vital Being.

One Measure Of Friendship Consists Not In The Number Of Things Friends Can Discuss, But In The Number Of Things They Need No Longer Mention.