Best line I've read yet about the charge leveled by Horace Engdahl, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, which awards the Nobel Prize in Literature, that American writers are too parochial to merit the prize:
When Engdahl declares, "You can't get away from the fact that Europe still is the center of the literary world," there is a poignant echo of Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard insisting that she is still big, it's the pictures that got smaller.
Via Slate