“The profound originality of a divine-human pact in which both parties complain endlessly about each other has too rarely been acknowledged as such.”

“Literature is too full of 'acknowledgments' and squabbles about originality...”

“In other words, every party will be permitted to contend for their truths so long as they acknowledge that they are their truths, and not the truth. Each will be permitted to propagandize, each will have to propagandize if it is to hold its own, because it is acknowledged that there is no common ground for the alternative to propaganda, which is reasonable persuasion.”

“[W]hat is always overlooked is that although the poor want to be rich, it does not follow that they either like the rich or that they in any way want to emulate their characters which, in fact, they despise. Both the poor and the rich have always found precisely the same grounds on which to complain about each other. Each feels the other has no manners, is disloyal, corrupt, insensitive - and has never put in an honest day's work in its life.”

“The heart that once has been your shrine for other loves is too divine”

“Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality”