“It must be borne in mind that most critics are men who have not had much luck and who, just about the time they were growing desperate, found a quiet little job as cemetery watchmen.” (p 324)
“Nothing is more respectable than long impunity.” (p. 336)
“Genius [is a] conflict between the Relative and the Absolute, between a finite presence and an infinite absence.” (p. 374)
-Take from Jean-Paul Sartre, Essays (noted Sept. 1, 1993)