Retailing is a unique destination. What you need is stronger critical mass.

- John Simon

Chess is a cold bath for the mind

- John Simon

If you love language, it will love you back.

- John Simon

The ultimate evil is the weakness, cowardice, that is one of the constituents of so much human nature. When, rarely, unalloyed nobility does occur, i…

- John Simon

It's wonderful to be hated by idiots.

- John Simon

Diana Rigg is built like a brick mausoleum with insufficient flying buttresses.

- John Simon

The pressure on language to deteriorate does not come merely from below, from the "democratic" lev-elers. It comes also from above, from the fancy ja…

- John Simon

This case is just as racist as the fictional, but unfortunately all too typical case, in 'To Kill a Mockingbird'.

- John Simon

People are looking around. They are looking to do something with their time and money. The question is, what?

- John Simon