She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight.

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.

The agent never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself out. He stays around forever, not only for as long as you can write anything that anyone will buy, but as long as anyone will buy any portion of any right to anything that you ever did write. He just takes ten per cent of your life.

The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities.

Television is really what we've been looking for all our lives.... [It's] perfect. You turn a few knobs and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primordial ooze.

I sat down on the edge of a deep soft chair and looked at Mrs Regan. She was worth a stare. She was trouble.

Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth.