"But I wasn’t a Cardinal, nephew to the Pope, / and you— / you were not a Caravaggio. / So I asked you to be in my movie."
"As he drank, little brown drops of coffee clung to his mustache like dew. Men will live like billy goats if they are let alone."
"Your function as a critic is to show that it is really you yourself who should have written the book."
"Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand."
"Is a gesture of charity genuine or is it a kind of deep moral tax write-off?"
"in a protracted stillness, I saw that heron I didn’t wish to disturb / was clearly a white sack caught in the redbud’s limbs"
"All prose is a form of deception."
"While the mask-impaired side vision permitted it, Briar watched the door behind her shrink as she rose."
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
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"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
