Criticism is concerned with evaluation. There may be evaluative principles implicit in this or that form of theory, but theory in and of itself is not prescriptive.

Authors we are in danger of accepting as gospel, whereas founders of discursivity provide permeable ideas that we can elaborate upon in a tradition of constructive dialogue.

I'm a fan or naysayer like everyone else, not an authority of any kind.

Satire about any and all professionals with a special vocabulary has been a staple of fiction and popular ridicule since the 18th century.

The rhetoric of theory is always in a bind. It pronounces ideas and denounces failures to accept or grasp them while insisting that there are no grounds either for accepting or grasping ideas.

I beg my reader to consider the "evidence" I provide for my case and perhaps feel persuaded as a result. Beyond that I make no claim.

Every original poet has a new insight, or rather introduces a new power.

I'm not only a romanticist but a romantic myself. I take it for granted the originality matters.

I myself always want to talk about "poetry," not "the poem."

The basic change in the landscape since my salad days started with the defensive rediscovery of history and politics by all the theoretically-oriented academics in the late seventies and eighties.

To work for salary is to give out your life for little compensation.

If we must part forever, Give me but one kind word to think uponand please myself with, while my heart's breaking.

The best proof of love is trust.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

The thing I always tell my audiences all the time is that I'm just two steps ahead of you on a good day. And I might be two steps behind you on a bad day.

Passion and hard work makes a great player, but the courage to get up every time you fall is what makes a champion.

being able to act intelligently and instinctively in the moment is possible only after a long and rigorous of education and experience

Our communal worship at Mass must go together with our personal worship of Jesus in Eucharistic adoration in order that our love may be complete

The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty.

I got to be Jim Morrison a lot longer than he did.