“The distinction between complex thinking / right-answer thinking increasingly defines the difference between elite educational opportunity and education of the rest.”"If the SAT Were a Key to All Mythology" by Monica Cohen
"Actually, in Mooch my objective was a bit different than in Chump Change. As a writer I am trying to get more 'out of the way' of my writing. To be more direct. The styles of my father and myself are similar but, our objectives as writers are quite different."
— Dan Fante


"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More

"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More

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"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More


"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More

"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More