Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won’t.

The achievement of maturity, psychologically speaking, might be said to be the realization and acceptance that we simply cannot live independently from the world, and so we must live within it, with whatever compromises that...

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.(Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne, 8 September 1935)

[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that account.

The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely one can only write the book that is there to be...

[N]othing about a book is so unmistakable and so irreplaceable as the stamp of the cultured mind. I don’t care what the story is about or what may be the momentary craze for books that...

It’s hard being pissed with a nice car and a good job. Fed up on filet medallions and swimming in chilled martinis. We know what we think and our life here is our reward for...

What if you start to think of your art in terms of sales, too? Can you still be true to yourself?

Brockhurst, the champion of individualism, was soon launched on his favorite topic.”The great fault of the American nation, which is the fault of republics, is the reduction of everything to the average. Our universities are...

Even the financial disclosure statements that political bloggers were required to post hadn’t stemmed the suspicion that people’s opinions weren’t really their own. “Who’s paying you?” was a retort that might follow any bout of...

Once people said: Give me liberty or give me death. Now they say: Make me a slave, just pay me enough.