Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.

[On Edna Ferber's Ice Palace] ... the book, which is going to be a movie, has the plot and characters of a book which is going to be a movie.

A list of authors who have made themselves most beloved and therefore, most comfortable financially, shows that it is our national joy to mistake for the first-rate, the fecund rate.

Hell's afloat in lover's tears.

Art is a form of catharsis.

Nevil Shute's On the Beach is no Christmas carol, but it seems to me a remarkably fine novel, one which I read, in the peculiarly repulsive phrase, with my eyes glued to the page.

Q: What's the difference between an enzyme and a hormone? A: You can't hear an enzyme.