Read at whim! Read at whim!
A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss, Goethe said; a correct answer, Gertrude would have said, is like a slap in the face.
If you've been put in your place long enough you begin to act like the place.
The safest way to avoid the world is through art; and the safest way to be linked to the world is through art.
Art is long, and critics are the insects of a day.
More and more people think of the critic as an indispensable middle man between writer and reader, and would no more read a book alone, if they could help it, than have a baby alone.