"What I most often wind up exploring is the relationship between the world as it is and the world as we perceive it to be."
"There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water."
"Like most writers I know who teach, I hope against hope it doesn't affect my writing. However, I think my writing deeply affects my teaching."
"Everything in a poem is form; the content is the reader's pleasure."
"This profession has a sort of moral and ethical horizon that is no better than the others."
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"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
"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
"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
