George Jean Nathan

Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.

An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.

I have a dog named Steve that lives at the studio.

Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.