“There is no medical proof that television causes brain damage - at least from over five feet away. In fact, TV is probably the least physically harmful of all the narcotics known to man.” MenFactsCausesBrainKnownFiveFeetTelevisionTvsProofMedicalDamageNarcotics Author:Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
“Even when you disagree with her, she electrifies your mind.” MindDisagree Author:Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
“In the spirit of Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot and Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr. Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage keeps circling its subject in widening loops and then darting at it when you least expect it . . . a wild book.” BookSpiritSubjectsRageSheerChanging Your LifeLoopsParrotsProust Author:Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
“Mr. Frazier makes me laugh out loud.” LaughingLoudMake Me LaughLaugh Out Loud Author:Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
“To be crazy is not necessarily to writhe in snake pits or converse with imaginary gods. It can sometimes be not knowing what to do in the morning.” SometimesMorningKnowingCrazyIllnessMental IllnessImaginaryNot KnowingSnakesPitsConversesBeing CrazyKnowing What To Do Author:Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
“Rice Krispies happens to be one of my favorite junk foods, just as I regard Michener as superior among junk writers.” HappensRegardMy FavoriteSuperiorsRiceJunkJunk FoodRice Krispies Author:Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
“The dream is everything in the sport of fishing. You dream with every cast of your fly that the shadowy form will finally rise to your fly. You dream as you drop off to sleep at night about the lunker that got loose just as you were about to net it.” DreamFormNightSportsSleepSeaRiversCastsFishesBoatLakesFishing Author:Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
“Even if language is a living evolving organism, we don't have to embrace all the changes that occur during our lifetimes. If language is so alive, it can get sick.” IfsLanguageAliveSickEmbraceLifetimeEvolveOrganisms Author:Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
“A brilliant and challenging discussion presented with extraordinary clarity.” ChallengesExtraordinaryBrilliantClarityDiscussion Author:Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
“There's an enormous difference between being a critic and a reviewer. The reviewer reacts to the experience of that book.” BookDifferencesCriticsEnormousReviewers Author:Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
“One is happy to report that Israel Shenker is still at the aerosol stage. His energy is still compressed. The result distinguishes him both as a Jew and as an observer of Jews.” StillsEnergyResultsStageJewIsraelReportsObservers Author:Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
“The beginning of a plot is the prompting of desire.” WritingDesirePlot Author:Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
