The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.

Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.

The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled not only by the guarantee of the Good but also by the shudder of the Bad.

There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale authentic copy; a philosophy of immortality as duplication. It dominates the relation with the self, with the past, not infrequently with the present, always with History and, even, with the European tradition.