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

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

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

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

"The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy."

"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."

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