The Simplest Questions Are The Hardest To

We Are Always In The Place Of Beginning; There Is No Advance In Infinity.

Read Blake Or Go To Hell, That's My Message To The Modern World.

We Are Being Swallowed Up By The Popular Culture Of The United States, But Then The Americans Are Being Swallowed Up By It Too. It's Just As Much A Threat To American Culture As It Is To Ours.

A Reader Who Quarrels With Postulates, Who Dislikes Hamlet Because He Does Not Believe That There Are Ghosts Or That People Speak In Pentameters, Clearly Has No Business In Literature. He Cannot Distinguish Fiction From Fact, And Belongs In The Same Category As The People Who Send Checks To Radio Stations For The Relief Of Suffering Heroines In Soap Operas.

Literature Begins With The Possible Model Of Experience, And What It Produces Is The Literary Model We Call The Classic.