On two volumes of letters by Ernest Hemingway and Samuel Beckett. More
"We wait. We are bored. (He throws up his hand.) No, don't protest, we are bored to death, there's no denying it. Good. A diversion comes along and what do we do? We let it go to waste ... In an instant all will vanish and we'll be alone once more, in the midst of nothingness!"
– Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
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"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... 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
