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.

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.

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.

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.

Nothing is more tragic than loving someone to the depths of your soul and knowing they cannot and will not ever love you back.

When we observe contemporary society one thing strikes us. We debate but make no progress. Why? Because as peoples we do not yet trust each other.

I don't think it's possible to write a good novel around a negative personality.

The most complex challenge for an actor is the ability to give dimension to the story from the time that it happened, not from the present.

My house is me and I am it. My house is where I like to be and it looks like all my dreams.

... what a fatal thing in pictures, books, or human lives, is a lack of proportion.

Stand tall and believe in yourself

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master.

It's not good to argue with your woman about something, because women feel strong about it, they slap you in your face, you still go back to them.

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.