"So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the end."
"in the profoundly ironic ending, left out of Boman's telling of the story, he now can take his place back at the starting line with the rest of us"
"I reckon everyone's got someone they're looking to find."
Mark Bould is an author, co-author and the co-editor of books on John Sayles, film noir and science fiction
"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."
"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
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
