Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.

If lowborn men could stand up to those born to rule, religion, government, the whole world would fall to pieces...[Merlin replies]...So it would; so it will...…

George:Lord knows you don't need no brains to buck barley. ('Buck' here means to work at lifting and throwing the sacks of barley.)

Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.

I regard criticism as an art, and if in this country and in this age it is practiced with honesty, it is no more remunerative than the work of an avant-garde f…

I'm ready to take the heat.

A creative artist works on his next composition because he is not satisfied with his previous one. When he loses a critical attitude toward his own work, he ce…