"You don't even have to win a championship every year to draw the fans. You just have to show you're really trying."

“All the unhallowed beauty I have found; All free - discordant shrills and form-defying wonders above ground, like writhen trees with draggled foliage struggling along the courses of wayback creeks; scarlet - and - green sky - streaking parrot - fires with parrot shrieks echo - shattering the shoulders of the hills; and desert - sunset - rage Rage for my mind, be clamant, do not cease you are my holiest habitat of peace.”

“Without an elite in the arts, we have no leaders, which is to say we have no vision, which is to say we have no arts.”

Source : Robert Brustein (1994). “Dumbocracy in America: Studies in the Theatre of Guilt, 1987-1994”, Ivan R Dee

“Yes, Im a New Yorker, born and bred. While Im not quite the L.A. snob that Woody Allen is, I do find myself happier in New York.”

“O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics.”

“I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.”

“Those who try to "break on through to the other side" not only cannot predict what they may find there, but are themselves too often broken in the process.”

“He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.”

Source : Margery Allingham (2016). “Margery Allingham Box Set 2: Flowers for the Judge, Death of a Ghost, and The Case of the Late Pig”, p.120, Ipso Books

“I do all the better bears.”