Edmund Wilson

His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.

The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

The Jew lends himself easily to Communism because it enables him to devote himself to a high cause, involving all of humanity, characteristics which are natural to him as a Jew.

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

No two persons ever read the same book.

I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.

The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.