Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

Jogging, I believe they call it. It seems to be an epidemic psychological illness afflicting Americans these days. A form of masochism, like the flagellantes in the Middle Ages.

Paraphrase, in the sense of summary, is as indispensable to the novel-critic as close analysis is to the critic of lyric poetry. The natural deduction is that novels are paraphrasable whereas poems are not. But this is a false deduction because close analysis is itself a disguised form of paraphrase.

Any language is necessarily a finite system applied with different degrees of creativity to an infinite variety of situations, and most of the words and phrases we use are "prefabricated" in the sense that we don't coin new ones every time we speak.

Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.

It's the only thing that keeps me going these days, travelling. Changes of scene, changes of faces

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.