"I think I became a biographer because I'm obsessively fascinated by people and how they work."
"All literary men are Red Sox fans — to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life."
"What I most often wind up exploring is the relationship between the world as it is and the world as we perceive it to be."
"There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water."
"Like most writers I know who teach, I hope against hope it doesn't affect my writing. However, I think my writing deeply affects my teaching."
"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
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
