The critics love to get out their knives and dine on Coverdale. But the worse the criticism gets, the more successful I become.

You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything

It doesn't get better, it doesn't get worse, but it sure gets different!

We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.

In criticism, I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

Anyone who finds himself incapable of grasping the complexities of a work hides his withdrawal behind the most superficial pretext because he has not gotten past the surface.