Don't explain your author, read him right and he explains himself

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it

Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.

I have been an author for 22 years and an ass for 55

I have been an author for 20 years and an ass for 55.

Adam was the author of sin, and I wish he had taken out an international copyright on it.