Strange Lights
The originality here lies in the author's ability to reshuffle the materials of pop literature and contemplate them anew. More
"If she'd spaced her children out and had eleven babies in eleven years, she would have been no better than her own mother and sisters: irresponsible, a welfare cheat, another bit of Sawdust Lane white trash. But as luck would have it, she'd had them all at once, and now she was, overnight, middle-class. And respectable."
— The Mammoth Cheese


"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More

"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More

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

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

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

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