"'Zona' is a mad endeavor, almost a provocation, certainly a challenge to Dyer himself — how can I keep people interested?" More
"He [Thelonious Monk] played each note as though astonished by the previous one, as though every touch of his fingers on the keyboard was correcting an error and this touch in turn became an error to be corrected and so the tune never quite ended up the way it was meant to."
— Geoff Dyer, But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
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"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
