
“Exquisite in both story and sentence, the Anne books built me as a reader, which is to say: they built me.”Sarah Mesle on "Anne of Green Gables"

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.”

"To counteract the emotional responses with a more considered view, so explaining why education is invariably the friend of liberal politics."

Richard Duncan is an engineer and is the developer of the terrifying "Olduvai theory."

"Progressives should have learned to build a politics that embraces the dreams of people and fashions spectacles which gives these fantasies form."

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

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

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

"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

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