51 Quotes by Wilfrid Sheed

Saloons provide moments of genuine ecstasy – but only if your soul is at peace and the rest of your life bears contemplating. Otherwise, they are palaces of misery.

The town is as full as ever of ‘characters,’ all created by each other.

Mr Michener, as timeless as a stack of National Geographics, is the ultimate Summer Writer. Just as one goes back to the cottage in Maine, so one goes back to one’s Michener.

As you approach the presidency, no one seems worthy of it, since it wasn’t designed for a human in the first place.

It’s the old case against symbols: if you get them, they seem obvious and artificial, and if you don’t, you miss the whole point.

How does one make a movie about decadence these days? Now that we’re allowed to do it, it’s too late.