The maimings of love are endlessly funny.

- Gilbert Sorrentino

What if this young woman, who writes such bad poems, in competition with her husband, whose poems are equally bad, should stretch her remarkably long…

- Gilbert Sorrentino

It is no wonder lesbians love women.

- Gilbert Sorrentino

Notable American Women gives us, with great panache and in eerie detail, a world that is cruelly reasonable within the near-religious limitations of …

- Gilbert Sorrentino

All I do know, for certain, after 53 years in this business, is that writers who sincerely think that their language can represent reality ought to b…

- Gilbert Sorrentino

Art cannot save anybody from anything.

- Gilbert Sorrentino

What is this thing called a kiss? French, tongue, soul, chaste, motherly, fatherly, brotherly, sisterly, ass, genital, Judas, trembling, rough, hesit…

- Gilbert Sorrentino

Rapacity plus taste is a formidable combination, since it so often passes for intelligence. One pities the artist in a world of such predators, all o…

- Gilbert Sorrentino

They want politics and think it will save them. At best, it gives direction to their numbed desires. But there is no politics but the manipulation of…

- Gilbert Sorrentino