I noticed affixed to a laboratory door the following words: "Les théories passent. Le Grenouille reste. [The theories pass. The frog remains.] &mdash….

It is not expected of critics that they should help us to make sense of our lives; they are bound only to attempt the lesser feat of making sense of ….

It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions..

It is one of the great charms of books that they have to end..