Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.

Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.

People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'

In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writ…