There is no method except yourself.

The morality of scholarship, as currently practiced, is to encourage everyone to replace difficult pleasures by pleasures universally accessible precisely because they are easier.

In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary.

Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads.

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

Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable.

More even than Southern Presbyterians and Southern Methodists, the Baptists provided the great mass of Confederate enlisted men.