Author Profession

As I’ve said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager.

Profession : Critic

Literature is the question minus the answer.

Profession : Critic

In some European theaters, it’s still not uncommon to have a late start and three LONG intermissions, because people actually eat and drink and converse during the intermissions.

Profession : Critic

Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.

Profession : Critic

It’s not a crime to get drunk.

Profession : Critic

I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it’s been pretty fun.

Profession : Critic

If you hate what you’re seeing, you call it sex and violence. If you like it, you call it “romance and adventure.”

Profession : Critic

To eat steak rare… represents both a nature and a morality.

Profession : Critic

What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.

Profession : Critic

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Profession : Critic