Who said “We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free from their authority.”?

“Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.”

“The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.”

“It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.”

“The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.”

“What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity.”

“God is only a great imaginative experience.”

“Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.”

“Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.”

“My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.”

“I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.”

“Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.”