I never have anything to talk about..

What God originates, God orchestrates..

I like my work to stand on its own as much as possible..

There is beauty in everything, Just not everybody sees it.

Swallows and Amazons for-ever!.

Some changes are so slow, you don't notice them, others are so fast, they don't notice you..

As for me, my literary theory, like my politics, is based chiefly upon one main idea, to wit, the idea of freedom. I am, in brief, a libertarian of t….

I used to teach at Yale, which was at one time a center of postmodernist literary theory. Derrida was there. Paul de Man was there..

The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination..

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was..