Writers quite often starve. And I'm mainly just writing critical prose and poetry, that's a formula for starvation.
The Canadian version of Julius Caesar's memoirs? I came, I saw, I coped.
You can never get a woman to sit down and listen to a drum solo.
Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits.
It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same.