A Broadway play is so much an event, designed down to the bit parts to explode in your face on one particular night, that it is hard to judge any one… - Wilfrid Sheed

Beware the fictionist writing his own life. Even candor becomes a strategy.

People talk about talent as though it were some neutral substance that can be applied to anything. But talent is narrow and only functions with a very few subjects, which it is up to the writer to find.

Happy the man with a book-length grievance — and rare. Each of these books contains one possible magazine article surrounded by more padding than an offensive lineman: every little indignity that ever happened to them, and every two-bit feud, magnified to a Horrible Example to justify a larger printing.