"During the day he denounced God as residual colonialist propaganda. 'Listen, if He was opium, I’d stuff him in a pipe and smoke Him.'"
"I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words."
"My resistance is tinged with jealousy, because these outsiders are coming to sightsee in the place that witnessed our anonymous captivity."
"I always include an element of fantasy ... to shatter a character's routine."
"I needed to believe that the broken tractor out back was a car of the future."
"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
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
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"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
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"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
"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
