Brendan Gill Quotes

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

attitude

I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of blue butterflies.

autobiography

The ingenuities we practice in order to appear admirable to ourselves would suffice to invent the telephone twice over on a rainy summer morning.

human nature self-esteem

As a literary form, parody is a method of criticism that amuses as it derogates...it is a form favored by writers of the second and third rank, who take revenge on their betters by putting just the wrong words to just the right tunes.

parody