"The world was his oyster and he had the open sesame of a pork-colored skin!"
"It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is."
"But the wild things cried, 'Oh please don't go — we'll eat you up — we love you so!'"
"I happen to think that the singular evil of our time is prejudice. It is from this evil that all other evils grow and multiply."
"Only philosophy can go deep enough to show that literature goes still deeper than philosophy."
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
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"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... 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
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
