Art is long, and critics are the insects of a day.

It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your life.

If you've been put in your place long enough you begin to act like the place.

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

More and more people think of the critic as an indispensable middle man between writer and reader, and would no more read a book alone, if they could help it, than have a baby alone.

If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.

The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.