“Cats have gnosis to a degree that is granted to few bishops.”

“A thing of beauty is a boy forever.”

“Paris is not a city I should care to approach for the first time after I had passed forty.”

“Is a little experience too much to pay for learning to know oneself?”

“Yes, it's hard to write, but it's harder not to.”

“She's as sweet as tupelo honey,She's an angel of the first degree.- Tupelo Honey”

“...this midlevel cultural-capital audience is not as far from the average white pop critic as we might have expected. We usually make middling incomes or worse, and while most have university degrees, our expertise is usually more self-taught than PhD-certified, a pattern believed would produce an anxious, fact-hoarding intellectual style in contrast with the relaxed mastery of a fully legitimated cultural elite.”