First person Quote by John Leonard

It takes along time to grow an old friend

— John Leonard

Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?

— John Leonard

“For Pol Pot, as for every other kamikaze of Kingdom Come, "the goal was not to destroy but to transmute." We have heard this…

— John Leonard

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

— John Leonard

In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame…

— John Leonard

“Isn't post-modernism really one big cover-up for the failure of the French to write a truly interesting novel ever since a sports car ate…

— John Leonard

Television is a corporate vulgarity.

— John Leonard

“I was going to suggest some hard-won guidelines for responsible reviewing. For instance: First, as in Hippocrates, do no harm. Second, never stoop to…

— John Leonard

“Books are where we go alone to complicate ourselves. Inside this solitude, we take on contours, textures, perspectives. Heightened language levitates the reader. Great…

— John Leonard

Aspiring to a souffle, he achieves a pancake at which the reader saws without much appetite.

— John Leonard

The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit.

— John Leonard

Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October.

— John Leonard