"Ideology, if I may quote myself, "is not ideas; ideology is not acquired by thought but by breathing the haunted air.…"

"It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief."

"A real book reads us. I have been read by Eliot's poems and by Ulysses and by Remembrance of Things Past and by The C…"

"Somewhere in the child, somewhere in the adult, there is a hard, irreducible, stubborn core of biological urgency, an…"

"Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgm…"

"We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cyn…"

"If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of…"

"Freud … showed us that poetry is indigenous to the very constitution of the mind; he saw the mind as being, in the gr…"

"Economic man and the Calvinist Christian sing to each other like voices in a fugue. The Calvinist stands alone before…"

"At the bottom of at least popular Marxism there has always been a kind of disgust with humanity as it is and a perfec…"