If You've Ever Really Been

I Will Never Cease Advising My Friends And Enemies To Read Poetry Before Anything.

The Makers Of Literature Are Those Who Have Seen And Felt The Miraculous Interestingness Of The Universe. If You Have Formed...literary Taste...your Life Will Be One Long Ecstasy Of Denying That The World Is A Dull Place.

It Is Well, When Judging A Friend, To Remember That He Is Judging You With The Same Godlike And Superior Impartiality.

Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A National Catastrophe.

Does There, I Wonder, Exist A Being Who Has Read All, Or Approximately All, That The Person Of Average Culture Is Supposed To Have Read, And That Not To Have Read Is A Social Sin? If Such A Being Does Exist, Surely He Is An Old, A Very Old Man.