Graydon Carter Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“To discuss a Martin Amis book, you must first discuss the orchestrated release of a Martin Amis book. In London, which rightly prides itself on the vibrancy of its literary cottage industry, Amis is the Steve Jobs of book promoters, and his product rollouts are as carefully managed as anything Apple dreams up.”

“Americans who grew up in the 1930s or 1940s still have some fleeting memory of what the country was like before it became the steroidal superpower it is today.”

“New York has arguably become the quintessential 1 percent city, a city that has been so given over to the rich that you now have to be rich to live here. Or not live here: New York's also a preferred destination for foreign money spent on vast, lifeless apartments in the sky that are occupied a couple of weeks a year at most.”

“What do you call an electorate that seems prone to acting out irrationally, is full of inchoate rage, and is constantly throwing fits and tantrums? You call it teenaged.”

“I really don't despise anyone. But there is a list of a half dozen people I would prefer never to hear from or see again.”

“Conservatives define themselves more by their hatred of liberals than anything else, and, conversely, liberals by their distaste for conservatives.”

“Every man in the back of their minds would like to own a bar or a racehorse.”

“As you get older and fatter, good clothes can hide a lot.”

“Everything I love about America is fragile.”

“I actually don't know how magazines are produced, I'll be honest with you. I have no idea.”