Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.

By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have don…

I sometimes wondered what the use of any of the arts was. The best thing I could come up with was what I call the canary in the coal mine theory of the arts. T…

It may happen in the next hundred years that the English novelists of the present day will come to be valued as we now value the artists and craftsmen of the l…

The point is that there isn't a canonical James Nicoll tale. The point is that whenever a discussion turns to some manner in which a human being can be menaced…