"Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence."
"I don't reckon misery loves any damn thing at all."
"Then you may have sheer clotted nonsense; I once chased Julius Caesar all over London to get his recipe for curried eggs."
His book chronicles the punk rock scene he watched emerge in 1970s Los Angeles.
"Science fiction is a laboratory of thought experiments."
"Daddy says the name Olivia beholds the fragrance of sweet, creek-side magnolia blossoms. Daddy's a poet in his soul, but not Mama."
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
