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His ignorance is encyclopedic.

I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, I wanna grow up and be a critic.

The critic should describe, and not prescribe.

There is no just and serene criticism as yet.

Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat – no matter who killed the meat for him.

The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

Celebrities, even insignificant ones like me, are created to be abused by the Great Unwashed.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.