„The strong misreader, like Foucault or Bloom, prides himself on the same thing, on being able to get more out of the text than its author or its intended audience could possibly have found there (…) He is in it for what he can get out of it, not for the satisfaction of getting something right.“

„The critic asks neither the author nor the text about their intentions but simply beats the text into a shape which will serve his own purpose. He makes the text refer to whatever is relevant to that purpose.“

Wenn du mit seinem neusten Werk startest, beginnst du mit der sanften Seite des Romantikers Taylor. Der für die funkelnde Mannigfaltigkeit der Wirklichkeit sensibilisierte Katholik weiß um die profane Magie der sprachlichen Welterschließung.