"In giving up an instinctive satisfaction, we simultaneously internalize the authority presumably inhibiting the instinct, increase our sense of guilt by intensifying our desire for satisfaction, submit the ego to the fury of an aggressiveness originally intended for the inhibiting external authority."

"Paradoxically, the simpler poetry is, the more difficult it becomes for a critic to discuss intelligently. Trained to explicate, the critic often loses the ability to evaluate literature outside the c…"

"​I was able to see the unshakable bonds between service men and women on the ground together, but at the same time to feel the palpable longing for family and friends while deployed."

"Metaphor has traditionally been regarded as the matrix and pattern of the figures of speech."

"Every day, as the work went on, the Virgin was present, directing the architects, and it is this direction that we are going to study, if you have now got a realising sense of what it meant. Without t…"