Always a godfather, never a god.

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

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

Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family.

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

There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.

Most writers are middle-class and are the children of doctors or lawyers.