No one yet has managed to be post-Shakespearean.

You know, I don't want to be offensive. But 'Infinite Jest' [regarded by many as Wallace's masterpiece] is just awful. It seems ridiculous to have to say it. He can't think, he can't write. There's no discernible talent.

If we read the Western Canon in order to form our social, political, or personal moral values, I firmly believe we will become monsters of selfishness and exploitation.

I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron.

To be a poet did not occur to me. It was indeed a threshold guarded by demons.

We read, frequently if not unknowingly, in search of a mind more original than our own.

Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they are represented by him on the stage.