Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment.

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

Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.

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

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

The preface is the most important part of a book. Even reviewers read a preface.

Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.