Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely.

Pornographers subvert this last, vital privacy; they do our imagining for us. They take away the words that were of the night and shout them over the roof-tops, making them hollow.

If there is a chronic infirmity by which every teacher ought to be afflicted, it is, indeed, hope.

Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity

Given my age, I am pretty near the end, probably, of my career as a writer, a scholar, a teacher. And I wanted to speak of things I will not be able to do.

More and more lower-middle-income families either live their lives in debt or leave the city altogether. The boom is strictly at the penthouse level.

Bookishness, highest literacy, every technique of cultural propaganda and training not only can accompany bestiality and oppression and despotism but at certain points foster it.