"Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs."

"I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they…"

"Masturbation is the thinking man's television."

""Lest that by any means When I have preached to others I myself Should be a castaway." If some one now Would take tha…"

"Daddy Neptune one day to Freedom did say, If ever I live upon dry land, The spot I should hit on wou'd be little Brit…"

"Then a very great war man, call'd Billy the Norman, Cried "D--n it, I never lik'd my land.""

"The Dons came to plunder the island; But, snug in the hive, the Queen was alive, And "buzz" was the word in the island."

"Longing while living for laurel and bays, Under this willow a poor poet 'lays'; With little to censure, and less to p…"

"There are so many interesting Brazilian writers I’d like to get my hands on. The ' Best Young Brazilian Novelists a f…"

"Once you’ve agreed what makes a in the first place (which isn’t as easy as one might think…), I think the basic measu…"