Brendan Gill Quotes
- Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
- Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run.
- Parody is homage gone sour.
- Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at grave peril to the arts.
- I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of…
- The ingenuities we practice in order to appear admirable to ourselves would suffice to invent the telephone twice over on a rainy summer morning.
- 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.
- It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and…
- If it were better, it wouldn't be as good.