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"Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves."
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"Many reviews are useless because, while purporting to condemn the book, they only reveal the reviewer's dislike of the kind to which it belongs. Let bad tragedies be censured by those who love tragedy, and bad detective stories by those who love the detective story. Then we shall learn their real faults. Otherwise we shall find epics blamed for not being novels, farces for not being high comedies, novels by James for lacking the swift action of Smollett. Who wants to hear a particular claret abused by a fanatical teetotaller, or a particular woman by a confirmed misogynist?"
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"Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism."
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"I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits."
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"He saw the article...which was not an expression of ideas, but a bucket of slime emptied in public-an article that did not contain a single fact, not even an invented one, but poured a stream of sneers and adjectives in which nothing was clear except the filthy malice of denouncing without considering proof necessary."
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"And what is written well and what is written badly...need we ask Lysias or any other poet or orator who ever wrote or will write either a political or other work, in meter or out of meter, poet or prose writer, to teach us this?' What is good, PhASdrus, and what is not good...need we ask anyone to tell us these things?"
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"A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender."
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"A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation."
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"I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots."
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"Some poems are written great, some poems are written swell. But then there are poems that could win a prize in Hell."
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"We are, in fact, a nation of evangelists; every third American devotes himself to improving and lifting up his fellow-citizens, usually by force; the messianic delusion is our national disease."
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"You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life."
Life
"The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary."
Man
"What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation."
Nothing
"Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea."
Power
"Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui."
Life
"Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory."
Imagination
"A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb."
Democracy
"Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers."
Creativity
"Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas."
Creativity
"Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off."
Persecutors
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