... All Professional Ideologies Are High-minded. Hunters,

One Must Conform To The Baseness Of An Age Or Become Neurotic.

Anything That Endures Over Time Sacrifices Its Ability To Make An Impression.

What Is Perceptible To One’s Mistrust Is The Cut-and-dried Way That Life Is Divided Up And The Ready-made Form It Assumes, The Ever-recurring Sameness Of It, The Pre-formations Passed Down By Generation After Generation, The Ready-made Language Not Only Of The Tongue But Also Of The Sensations And The Feelings.

Is Not Art A Tool We Employ To Peel The Kitsch Off Life? Layer By Layer Art Strips Life Bare. The More Abstract It Gets, The More Transparent The Air Is. Can It Be That The Farther It Is Removed From Life, The Clearer Art Becomes?

Only In The Most Unusual Cases Is It Useful To Determine Whether A Book Is Good Or Bad; For It Is Just As Rare For It To Be One Or The Other. It Is Usually Both.