King die hard, in Shakespeare and in life.

At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.

Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue.

One reads for oneself and for strangers.

Originality must compound with inheritance.

The aesthetic and the agonistic are one, according to the ancient Greeks.

The inventor knows HOW to borrow.

Persuasion is a strong but subdued outrider.

Shakespeare's exquisite imagining belies our total inability to live in the present moment.

Reviewing bad books is bad for the character – WH Auden

Great literature will insist upon its self-sufficiency in the face of the worthiest causes

Grace sat down where the chair wasn't.

The forms of manners which should be scrupulously observed are, invariably, those which contribute to the comfort, or dignity of others.

Isn’t that why all writers write? To inspire their readers?

Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.

It is wonderful what you can do when you have to.

When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty.

The sugar industry doesn't want to see more of the agricultural areas turned into storm-water treatment areas. Ultimately they want to develop that land for houses and a shopping center.

You always be calling her, she aint never answerin. You aint figured out I am the reason that she canceling

We are all creatures of our ancestry! There is no right and wrong, objectively.

Movies will finally reflect the world we live in, not some weird dinosaur reality.