Life is a picnic on a precipice.

The closest modern equivalent to the Homeric hero is the ace fighter pilot.

From beginning to end Wilde performed his life and continued to do so even after fame had taken the plot out of his own hands.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of an élite which knows the law in some field or other, is an object of distrust and resentment.

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

I smell blood and an era of prominent madmen.