When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder

The dead don’t die. They look on and help.

Now it is autumn and the falling fruit

I never saw a wild thing

Be a good animal, true to your instincts.

Don’t you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?

Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.