"A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds."
"That afternoon the muzhiki sent a delegation to deliver an ultimatum: five thousand rubles by morning or suffer a pogrom."
"I would sit in front of the class and pretend to have answers to their questions about geometry, history, science, etc."
"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."
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"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
"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
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
