
“Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece”By Stephanos Papadopoulos

"I don't believe that human existence is just one damn problem after another."

"I am still shocked when I go into major bookstores and find plenty of books about musical performers but none about music listeners."

“I write to entertain. Period.”

"A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled."

"I think I became a biographer because I'm obsessively fascinated by people and how they work."

"All literary men are Red Sox fans — to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life."

"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... 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

"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More

"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More