"(In those high-school days, we thought that poetry was pretty much anything about 'feelings.')"
--Daniel Mendelsohn's critic's manifesto for the New Yorker is excellent all around, but I love this parenthetical the most. 

Re. editing HUCK FINN

And while we're at it, let's just leave all that uncomfortable racism business in the past. Racism is over! It's totally over, all we have to do is say it is. It's 2011, it's just find and replace, people! Find and replace.