Edmund WilsonThinkers

Evelyn Waugh is a writer whose style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.

Income is never more demoralizing than when it is small but adequate.

Wallace Stevens is the master of a style with a gift for combining words that is baffling and fantastic. Even when you do not know what he is saying, you know that he is saying it well.