
“The distinction between complex thinking / right-answer thinking increasingly defines the difference between elite educational opportunity and education of the rest.”"If the SAT Were a Key to All Mythology" by Monica Cohen

"Art makes the familiar strange so that it can be freshly perceived."

"something is always burning, / london, paris, detroit, l.a., the neighbor- / hoods no one outside seems to see until / they're backlit by flames…"

"Utopias are boring. Dystopias on the other hand, are interesting."

“Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.”

"She was stretching her legs without paying any attention to what was happening and I noticed her high pointed heels."

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

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"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More

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

"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