You hear all this whining going on, "Where are our great writers?" The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?

To speak today of a famous novelist is like speaking of a famous cabinetmaker or speedboat designer. Adjective is inappropriate to noun.

We must always remember that the police are recruited from the criminal classes.

The Gores, I think, are a bit brighter than the Bushes, historically speaking.

You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country.

Despite the warnings of other times, the impetuous and the confident continue their indiscriminate cultivation of weeds at the expense of occasional flowers.

The first TV babies are now writing with a TV mind that has no attention span at all.