Reviewers...must normally function as huff-and-puff artists blowing laggard theatergoers stageward.

Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.

He had delusions of adequacy.

Harpo Marx looks like a musical comedy.

It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.

He wove a great web of knowledge, linking everything together, and sat modestly at a switchboard at the center, eager to help.