Deconstruction glorifies the critic, humiliates the author, and makes the reader wonder why he bothered.
Everyone makes sexy sounds; relatively few, sexy sights.
Dreams are distorted representations of desire. So are dream- analyses.
The privacy of reading frees us to entertain the alien.
To avoid doing anything, wait for the right circumstances.
A laughing Lear would be monstrous. Not so a laughing Romeo and Juliet.