Quotes About Author

I think in general in my teens I had a lot of crushes on men on the Internet, most notably Momus since I was in my late teens. John Darnielle was also another big crush.

What in Mandela was seen as an almost saintly ability to conciliate could, in a lesser man, be read as weak-kneed populism.

There's almost a universe as big as the Marvel Universe with X-Men. I mean, Deadpool is something I think everybody was taken surprise by, except for the people who read the comic book.

Donald Trump is not an unintelligent man.

All right. Normal rules apply." "Right." The man walked off, leaving us. "What are the normal rules?" I asked. "He walks away and has a tea break and doesn't ask any questions.

The moon doesn't have enough gravity to keep an atmosphere around it and some men doesn't have enough honour to keep God's angels around them!

Jed Diamond is, quite simply, one of the wisest men writing today on the topic of male emotional and physical health.

William Shawn was the editor of The New Yorker and for whom I worked for, God, 27 years; a man I respected enormously because of what he did, - what the magazine was about.

I am hesitant to say this about [Barack] Obama. Obama is a bad man in terms of the Constitution.

This book, "Speaking Freely," starts when I came to New York. And the first chapter is about a man who became a friend of mine, much to our mutual surprise, Malcolm X.

Usually, I take a hike for a while after submitting a column to Townhall. Too much of my insensitivity can cause emotional problems among proggies, and I am, after all, a compassionate man.

When I speak out on corporations hurting the common man or the environment or other species, I expect a well-financed disinformation campaign to be aimed my way.

Man.God.Roarke. An interesting and flattering lineup.

I may as well tell you, here and now, that if you are going about the place thinking things pretty, you will never make a modern poet. Be poignant, man, be poignant!

She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy I said 'Be careful his bowtie is really a camera'

A poet, as he is the author to others of the highest wisdom, pleasure, virtue, and glory, so he ought personally to be the happiest, the best, the wisest, and the most illustrious of men.

The absence of sentimentalism in Christ's relations with men is what makes His tenderness so exquisitely touching.

For those who have only ever read about [John] Calvin, reading the man himself is an invigorating experience.

He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.

The wit of man has devised cruel statutes, And nature oft permits what is by law forbid.

If you are not careful, soon you will have men locking themselves in dungeons so that you can rescue them.

Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with.

Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most commentators and historians.

Some men's reputation seems like seed-wheat, which thrives best when brought from a distance.