I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.

The step between ecstatic vision and sinful frenzy is all too brief.

There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale authentic copy; a philosophy of immortality as duplication. It dominates the relation with the self, with the past, not infrequently with the present, always with History and, even, with the European tradition.

The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.

There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.

There are no stories without meaning. And I am one of those men who can find it even when others fail to see it. Afterwards the story becomes the book of the living, like a blaring trumpet that raises from the tomb those who have been dust for centuries.

Mystical additions and subtractions always come out the way you want.