I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis. – Leslie Fiedler
I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake. – Leslie Fiedler

I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis. – Leslie Fiedler
I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake. – Leslie Fiedler
Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays cant identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isnt yet historical. – 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
What way should Victor take in the labyrinth of beauty?— All the sixty-four radii of the compass stretched themselves out as so many fingerposts, and he had sense enough not to propose to himself any particular hour of arriving. – Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, Hesperus, or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography,