The ingenuities we practice in order to appear admirable to ourselves would suffice to invent the telephone twice over on a rainy summer morning. — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
In the later nineteenth century, the tops of skyscrapers often took the shape of domes, surmounted by jaunty gilded lanterns; later came ziggurats, mausoleums,… — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
The guns of the big events rumble through our pages, but the tiny firecrackers are constantly hissing and popping there as well; it appears… — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
We must all face the fact that in a single lifetime we lead several simultaneous lives; our intention should be to make them reinforce… — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud… — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
To die quickly in one's eighth decade at the very top of one's powers is an enviable end, and not an occasion for mourning. — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale… — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at grave peril to the arts. — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
