Strict rules of evidence would destroy psychoanalysis and literary criticism.

If you have no power, talk about your influence. If you have power, talk about the constraints that hem you in.

You gave me a significant look, but significant of what?

First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.

To make a thought my own, I must think it often.

Truth can remain silent. Lies must be spoken.

The unknowable creates the greatest controversies.