Real Reading Is A Lonely Activity.

I Think Freud Is About Contamination, But I Think That Is Something He Learned From Shakespeare, Because Shakespeare Is About Nothing But Contamination, You Might Say.

It Is Hard To Go On Living Without Some Hope Of Encountering The Extraordinary.

Personality, In Our Sense, Is A Shakespearean Invention.

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

Criticism In The Universities, I'll Have To Admit, Has Entered A Phase Where I Am Totally Out Of Sympathy With 95% Of What Goes On. It's Stalinism Without Stalin.