Reading Well Is One Of The Greatest

The World Does Not Get To Be A Better Or A Worse Place; It Just Gets More Senescent.

Information Is Endlessly Available To Us; Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?

We Read To Find Ourselves, More Fully And More Strangely Than Otherwise We Could Hope To Find.

I Won't Say He [shakespeare] 'invented' Us, Because Journalists Perpetually Misunderstand Me On That. I'll Put It More Simply: He Contains Us. Our Ways Of Thinking And Feeling-about Ourselves, Those We Love, Those We Hate, Those We Realize Are Hopelessly 'other' To Us-are More Shaped By Shakespeare Than They Are By The Experience Of Our Own Lives.

What Matters In Literature In The End Is Surely The Idiosyncratic, The Individual, The Flavor Or The Color Of A Particular Human Suffering.