Ivory Towers Are As Rare As Bowling

Works Of Art Cannot Save Us. They Can Simply Render Us More Sensitive To What Needs To Be Repaired.

Americans Use The Word "dream" As Often As Psychoanalysts Do.

Today, Nostalgia Is Almost As Unacceptable As Racism.

Literary Texts Do Not Exist On Bookshelves: They Are Processes Of Signification Materialized Only In The Practice Of Reading. For Literature To Happen, The Reader Is Quite As Vital As The Author.

Virtue Is Something You Have To Get Good At, Like Playing The Trombone Or Tolerating Bores At Parties. Being A Virtuous Human Being Takes Practice; And Those Who Are Brilliant At Being Human (what Christians Call The Saints) Are The Virtuosi Of The Moral Sphere - The Pavarottis And Maradonas Of Virtue.