
“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

"'Romance,' said Antony. 'A con so crazy that by the time the bullet's in the chamber, you don't know if you've taken someone or you've been taken.'"

He is currently collaborating with artist Arturo Romo and other writers

"Reading Austen is a frickin' mine field."

"I was twelve and love burned in me like sap. Peter got down on his knees as though I was his goddess."

"The people at the top know what they have to do to stay there."

"I find it a huge strain to be responsible for my tastes and be known and defined by them."

"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


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

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

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