
“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

"A pity the selfsame vehicle that spirits me away from factories of tedium should likewise serve to drag me backwards into panic"

"Periodicals that regularly featured accounts of Japanese atrocities gave negligible coverage to the genocide of the Jews."

Brian Doyle is an essayist and the editor of Portland magazine.

"I know there is no such thing as 'gender neutral.'"

"The internet is the ultimate enemy of unconditional commitment."

"There was a dearth of critical discourse and gallery infrastructure. As a group, they reveled in being pugnacious and anti-intellectual."

"All around the world, the biggest ‘risk factor’ for infidelity is simply being male.”

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

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

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

"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

"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More