The Work Of Memory Collapses Time.

Work On Good Prose Has Three Steps: A Musical Stage When It Is Composed, An Architectonic One When It Is Built, And A Textile One When It Is Woven.

The Camera Introduces Us To Unconscious Optics As Does Psychoanalysis To Unconscious Impulses.

In Every Case The Storyteller Is A Man Who Has Counsel For His Readers.

The Power Of A Text When It Is Read Is Different From The Power It Has When It Is Copied Out. Only The Copied Text Thus Commands The Soul Of Him Who Is Occupied With It, Whereas The Mere Reader Never Discovers The New Aspects Of His Inner Self That Are Opened By The Text, That Road Cut Through The Interior Jungle Forever Closing Behind It: Because The Reader Follows The Movement Of His Mind In The Free Flight Of Day-dreaming, Whereas The Copier Submits It To Command.

Opinions Are A Private Matter. The Public Has An Interest Only In Judgments.