At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout.
Edmund WilsonThe Jew lends himself easily to Communism because it enables him to devote himself to a high cause, involving all of humanity, characteristics which are natural to him as a Jew.
Edmund WilsonIn a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.
Edmund Wilson