You've always made the mistake of being yourself.
There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to realize myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have succeeded, this is nothing but humbug and mystification. Everything we dream is realizable. Reality does not have to be: it is simply what it is.
Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing.
Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.
The critic should describe, and not prescribe.
The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself.