My objection to modernism is the smallness of its aim, its fussy pedantry, its bow-tied exclusiveness resembling more the snobbery of an airheaded fraternity at some private college than a true intellectual elitism.

• 我反对现代主义是因为它目标狭窄，装腔作势地卖弄学问，文人雅士般地惟我独尊，它不是真正的智力至高无上论，倒更像某个私立学校中夸夸其谈的学生组织的恃才傲物。