Always a godfather, never a god.

Everything's wrong on Wikipedia.

At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice.

I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.

Poor John Simon - what a nightmare, to wake up in the morning and realize that you are John Simon.

I am an obsessive rewriter, doing one draft and then another and another, usually five. In a way, I have nothing to say, but a great deal to add.

Love, like a sense of humor, is now claimed by everyone even though Love, like a sense of humor, is rather more rare than not, and to most of us poor muddlers unbearable at full strength.