I liked Camille Paglia. I liked her even better when I heard her talk.

Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish.

DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath.

I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis.

It's funny to be a critic.

Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He did it better.

Cooper wrote a novel which is absolutely indistinguishable from Austen, completely from a female point of view, completely English, no sense that he was an American.