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.

Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain.

We can't tell our life from our wish

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.

We died like aunts of pets or foreigners.

Say what you like, but such things do happen - not often, but they do happen.

Except from the Americans—but every pearl has its oyster.