My assignment is what every writers assignment is: tell the truth of his own time. – Leslie Fiedler
Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know. – Leslie Fiedler
I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake. – Leslie Fiedler
All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldnt read it the way you read history or science. – Leslie Fiedler
Only roam on, therefore, all fearless, in the many garden of romantic chivalrous poesy, which drawing within its circle all that is glorious and inspiring, gave itself but little concern as to where its flowers originally grew. – C.O. Müller (Karl Otfried Müller), Introduction to a Scientific System