"John Gross" FRSL was an eminent English man of letters. A leading intellectual, writer, anthologist, and critic The Spectator magazine called Gross "the best-read man in Britain", as did The Guardian. He was the editor of The Times Literary Supplement from 1974 to 1981, senior book editor and book critic on the staff of The New York Times from 1983 to 1989, and theatre critic for The Sunday Telegraph from 1989 to 2005. He also worked as assistant editor on Encounter (magazine)/Encounter and as literary editor of New Statesman/The New Statesman and The Spectator/Spectator magazines.

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At $1.75, some believed the market had reached its peak, and they said the same thing at $2. Now we're at $2.60 and nobody knows where the top is going to be.

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I think they're crazy. There are people that need places to stay and all they're talking about is Mardi Gras.

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Can something be ethical but illegal?

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He had more time to develop his talents, ... And I get the benefit of it.

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My goal is either make something out of them or use them as is, ... I don't believe in destroying them.

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The cliché is a hackneyed idiom that hopes that it can still palm itself off as a fresh response.

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The catch phrase positively rejoices in being a formula, an accepted gambit, a ready-made reaction.

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It does not look like the market will get into balance as quickly as people had anticipated.

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To have had a religious upbringing at least assures that in your own mind you are a Jew first, and the object of other people's dislike second.

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