“The two girls grew up at the edge of the ocean and knew it was paradise, and better than Eden, which was only a garden.”
"All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself."
"The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour."
“A bee rose up from a sun-filled paper cup, off to make slum honey from some diet root beer it had found inside.”
"On the simplest level, Montaigne has the same appeal as reality TV shows."
“It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.”
"Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don't you?"
"Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessels are the written mythologies of memory and desire."
"The Culture had no need to colonize, exploit, or enslave."
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
