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

Information is the religion of the modern world.

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

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.

Life, after all, should go forwards, not backwards.

I never did like working out - it bears the same relationship to real sport as masturbation does to real sex

to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action to another, from one level of a text to another. The text unveils itself before us, but never allows itself to be possessed; and instead of trying to possess it we should take pleasure in its teasing