"Biography and biographical criticism, particularly of the psychoanalytic variety, is only wrong if practiced while the author is alive."
"I think that's what art is: art is communication made in the hope that interesting miscommunications will arise."
"Most of us struggle in life to maintain the illusion of control, but in Africa that illusion is almost impossible to maintain."
"His curse in life was to be attracted to people who understood him."
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... 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
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
