Jeremiah is a most melancholy prophet. He wails from beginning to end; he is often childish, is rarely indecent, and although it may be blasphemy to say so, he and his 'Lamentations' are really not worth reading.

Whether my columns are worth reading isn't for me to say.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.

All men die. You may say: 'Is that encouraging?' Surely yes, for when a man dies, his blunders, which are of the form, all die with him, but the things in him that are part of the life never die, although the form be broken.

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.