"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."
Jacob Eyferth is the author of How China Works and Eating Rice from Bamboo Roots.
"I began writing – became sane enough to write – at the age of forty-two."
"A peculiar fact about termite-tapeworm-fungus-moss art is that it goes always forward eating its own boundaries."
"There were a couple of times when film was part of everyday culture, and philosophy had its physical expression, you could see it with your eyes."
"So long, Lee. Give our regards to the Kaiser. And tell him there's a few boys on 58th Street who'll throw a party for him if he'll drop around."
"For all of us it’s the things that won’t work that keep our interest."
"Pouring out liquor is like burning books."
"Told me he was waiting for someone, but not a girl because I was all the woman he’d ever need."
"So much of liberalism in its classical sense is taken for granted in the west today and even disrespected. We take freedom for granted"
"The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've been thinking about that."
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"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
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
