Quotes from John Simon

Michael Taylor is not being executed for homicide. Michael Taylor is being executed for raping a white female.

Activating oxygen can produce compounds called radicals that put oxidative stress on cells. Such stress could ultimately lead to cancer and other diseases.

People are looking around. They are looking to do something with their time and money. The question is, what?

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant.

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.

Dinner theater is anti-culture.

The ultimate evil is the weakness, cowardice, that is one of the constituents of so much human nature. When, rarely, unalloyed nobility does occur, its chances of prevailing are slim. Yet it exists, and its mere existence is reason enough for not wiping the name of mankind off the slate.

It's wonderful to be hated by idiots.

If you love language, it will love you back.

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.

If you love language, it will love you back.

We like to be the largest outside investor, and the first outside investor.

Like springs, adaptations can only go downhill.

Robert Creely's poems have two main characteristics. 1) They are short; 2) they are not short enough.

Diana Rigg is built like a brick mausoleum with insufficient flying buttresses.