Shakespeare Is Universal.

Everyone Wants A Prodigy To Fail; It Makes Our Mediocrity More Bearable.

Reading Well Is One Of The Greatest Pleasures That Solitude Can Afford You.

I Don't Believe In Myths Of Decline Or Myths Of Progress, Even As Regards The Literary Scene.

One Measures Oncoming Old Age By Its Deepening Of Proust, And Its Deepening By Proust. How To Read A Novel? Lovingly, If It Shows Itself Capable Of Accomodating One's Love; And Jealously, Because It Can Become The Image Of One's Limitations In Time And Space, And Yet Can Give The Proustian Blessing Of More Life.

Socrates, In Plato, Formulates Ideas Of Order: The Iliad, Like Shakespeare, Knows That A Violent Disorder Is A Great Order.