I was a fan of Charlie Sheen - he's an incredibly likable, affable guy - well, until he doesn't like you.
A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.
Critics are biased, and so are readers. (Indeed, a critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste. ) But intelligent readers soon discover how to allow for the windage of their own and a critic's prejudices.
The brilliant explosion known as Benny Goodman went off in 1935, and it hasn´t gone out yet.
The more populous the world and the more intricate its structure, the greater must be its fundamental insecurity. A world-structure too elaborately scientific, if once disrupted by war, revolution, natural cataclysm or epidemic, might collapse into a chaos not easily rebuilt.
A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.
Being an agent gave me a great sense of satisfaction
The people you save won't celebrate you. They'll gather the wood and cheer while you burn.