"There are enough writers already. Wait for some of us to die."
"I look back on that time and think how heartbreakingly young my mother and father were in 1944."
"Love is a dangerous angel."
"I am not unique in my elegiac sadness at watching reading die, in the era that celebrates Stephen King and J.K. Rowling rather than Charles Dickens."
“Something will be offensive to someone in every book, so you've got to fight it.”
"When a family breaks you don't hear the crack of the breaking. You don't hear a sound."
"So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the end."
"in the profoundly ironic ending, left out of Boman's telling of the story, he now can take his place back at the starting line with the rest of us"
"I reckon everyone's got someone they're looking to find."
"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
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... 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
