We don't really need reviewers, just first-night reporters who will tell us faithfully whether or not the audience liked the show.

Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.

My Irish derivation has nothing to do with me. Why should it?

I hate pride, but if I were going to be proud of anything it would have to be something I'd done myself. Race pride is kind of stupid.

Nothing but the heart can change the heart.

The wages of pedantry is pain.

The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable.