I love America, but I don't like it.

It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.

I love America, but I don't like it.

In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.

To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.