Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as only sport can be.

I had always imagined that Cliché was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford.

People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.

Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma.

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and the Old Pretender

Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as only sport can be.