She knew what she knew, like a sound dogmatist: she did not know what she did not - like a sound agnostic.

To me his (Edgar Allan Poe's) prose is unreadable - like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not Jane's. Jane …

You could not shock her more than she shocks me; Beside her Joyce seems innocent as grass. It makes me most uncomfortable to see An English spinster of the mid…

Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

'One must forget many cliches in order to behold a single image. Insight is the beginning of perceptions to come rather than the extension of perceptions gone …

Search not to find what lies too deeply hid, Nor to know things, whose knowledge is forbid.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.