"Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor."

"The vast ineptitude of his pretense would be a convincing proof that this was no fraud."

"Reading … is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual."

"Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius."

"If the pages of this book contain some successful verse, the reader must excuse me the discourtesy of having usurped …"

"Some days past I have found a curious confirmation of the fact that what is truly native can and often does dispense …"

"Wilde was not a great poet nor a consummate prose writer. He was a very astute Irishman who encompassed in epigrams a…"

"That one individual should awaken in another memories that belong to still a third is an obvious paradox."

"It is worth remembering that every writer begins with a naively physical notion of what art is. A book for him or her…"

"The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply a…"