"The stewardess swished by with a smell of perfume that hit me like a twenty-one gun salute."
"There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there."
"Mixing pop and politics, he asks me what the use is. / I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses."
"History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all."
"From the stylized and theatrical settings of the early dramas, silent films moved into greater and greater involvement with the actors."
"Brenner is less interested in libertarian prescriptions than in a fact-based description of what happened and why."
"Americans, in particular, exhibit very childish reactions to sexual practices that are new to them"
" Science fiction (at its best) is about exploring issues of how humanity deals with change."
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
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"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
