Who said “If poetry is like an orgasm, an academic can be likened to someone who studies the…”?

“There is but one step from the Academy to the Fad.”

“Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.”

“In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity -- or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity -- by being opinionated rather than by being learned.”

“A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.”

“I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike -- and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two -- are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats. And that being the case, any human being, male or female, of whatever status, who has a voice of her or his own, is not going to be liked.”

“My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.”

“God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.”

“When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.”

“Idealist: a cynic in the making.”

“Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.”

“We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.”