“If Hell is where nothing connects, then being in the field of English must be the key to heaven's door! We are in the business of finding connections--within texts, between texts and contexts, between texts and ourselves, between our readings and the readings of other interpreters.”

“Between the desireAnd the spasm,Between the potencyAnd the existence,Between the essenceAnd the descent,Falls the Shadow.This is the way the world ends.from "The Hollow Man”

“life is long between the desire and the spasm.”

“Between the ideaAnd the realityBetween the motionAnd the actFalls the Shadow”

“Between the conceptionAnd the creationBetween the emotionAnd the responseFalls the Shadow”

“The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.”

“I have heard the key Turn in the door once and turn once only We think of the key, each in his prison Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison”