We have revolutionary thought whenever the feeling "life is a dream" becomes geared to an impulse to awaken from it. - Northrop Frye

The twentieth century saw an amazing development of scholarship and criticism in the humanities, carried out by people who were more intelligent, better trained, had more languages, had a better sense of proportion, and were infinitely more accurate scholars and competent professional men than I. I had genius. No one else in the field known to me had quite that.

There can be no free speech in a mob: free speech is one thing a mob can't stand.

The only way to forestall the work of criticism is through censorship, which has the same relation to criticism that lynching has to justice.'''