Well, men go to musicals. Women are the ones that buy the tickets for plays.

Book reviewers are little old ladies of both sexes.

I can get very depressed by a review that is unfair, unreasonable, and totally destructive.

But whats the use of being old if you cant be dumb?

So who's perfect? ... Washington had false teeth. Franklin was nearsighted. Mussolini had syphilis. Unpleasant things have been said about Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde. Tchaikovsky had his problems, too. And Lincoln was constipated.

Much as I like owning a Rolls-Royce, I could do without it. What I could not do without is a typewriter, a supply of yellow second sheets and the time to put them to good use.

Becoming the reader is the essence of becoming a writer.