'…all / The dreary intercourse of daily life…'

How many drafts can I delete before I concede, I'm just not going to be sharing my thoughts with anyone today?

There's an official way of doing things. In what ways can it be questioned? In the official way! …say officials.

Revolutionary praxis chiasmus!

'Whatever I can steal.'

—So there can be something perverse about criticism.

In a way, criticism looks to unmake what has been made, so that it can understand how it works.

Where an artist has worked, criticism unworks.

In general, characters don't talk enough about each other. They react less than people do.

'I think this is very much the way Americans are given to speak—not in some dismay that they haven't another way to speak, but, rather, that they feel that they, perhaps more than any other group of people upon the earth at this moment, have had both to imagine and thereby to make that reality which they are then given to live in.'