
“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

"The quiet that followed was desperate, starving, rabid. No one moved. We were a houseful of statues, discarded for imperfections."

"Elliott Murphy was Paul Nelson’s rock & roll dream incarnate. The singer-songwriter’s music was rooted as much in literary traditions."

"One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism."

"The savage who views death with a strange indifference is anything but the timorous man of the state of nature."


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

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

"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More