
“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"

"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."

"Beekeepers — who have, after all, chosen careers involving stinging insects — are not terribly rational people. They are loyal people, however."

"Balloons. Let’s say repetition is very / bright. Muddy river. Dead dog. The / terrible terrible. "

"When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious."

"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

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

"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More

"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More

"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More