“A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making an...” — Oscar Wilde Quote

“A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.”

“Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.”

“Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.”

“I want people to think of me as a 'Mindset' guy, a journalist, a commentator, a social media personality, a filmmaker, an author, but I got to - I have to pivot so far away from anything pro-Trump, I just got to keep going that way.”

“Part of the process of reading is constantly hitting the pause button, and now and then the rewind button, to ponder a word that's been chosen by the author as exquisitely as the filmmaker chooses an image or a sound editor chooses a sonic clue - the tolling of a bell in the distance to evoke memory, for instance.”