Good Drama Must Be Drastic.

Irony Is The Form Of Paradox. Paradox Is What Is Good And Great At The Same Time.

The Analytical Writer Observes The Reader As He Is; Accordingly, He Makes His Calculation, Sets His Machine To Make The Appropriate Effect On Him. The Synthetic Writer Constructs And Creates His Own Reader; He Does Not Imagine Him As Resting And Dead, But Lively And Advancing Toward Him. He Makes That Which He Had Invented Gradually Take Shape Before The Reader's Eyes, Or He Tempts Him To Do The Inventing For Himself. He Does Not Want To Make A Particular Effect On Him, But Rather Enters Into A Solemn Relationship Of Innermost Symphilosophy Or Sympoetry.

It Is Peculiar To Mankind To Transcend Mankind.

Many A Witty Inspiration Is Like The Surprising Reunion Of Befriended Thoughts After A Long Separation.

There Is No Self-knowledge Except Historical Self-knowledge. No One Knows What He Is If He Doesn't Know What His Contemporaries Are.