Ability Quote by Hunter S. Thompson

You see so many people doing quite nice and respectful work, but nobody like Warhol. Warhol is outstanding. I think he has a value…

— Ai Weiwei

P.C. Richard and Son has a wonderful heritage and is part of the great American storybook.

— Rohan Marley

“Dostoevski's The Double is his best work though an obvious and shameless imitation of Gogol's "Nose.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

So, did I work with Warhol? I worked with him less on that play then I did on other things. He actually did a…

— Harvey Fierstein

I get sent a lot of scripts which feature him as a kind of all-purpose Victorian literary character and really understand little, if anything,…

— Simon Callow

Ralph Ellison is a classic work of erudition, grace, and elegance. Rampersad offers us an Ellison whose gifts and warts orbit the same universe…

— Michael Eric Dyson

I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. He's very original, very accurate and acute.

— Helen Vendler

“He's one of those people, thought Howard, who looks like one quality very much, and the quality in this case is 'noble'. Howard didn't…

— Zadie Smith

Arnold Rampersad's stunningly revealing biography has, at long last, unveiled-in magisterial prose-the very complex and vulnerable man behind Ralph Ellison's own masks and myths.…

— Henry Louis Gates

Housman is one of my heroes and always has been. He was a detestable and miserable man. Arrogant, unspeakably lonely, cruel, and so on,…

— A. E. Housman

'Colonel Roosevelt' is compelling reading, and Morris a brilliant biographer who practices his art at the highest level.

— Fred Kaplan

I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. Hes very original, very accurate and acute.

— Helen Vendler