"Literature could turn you into an asshole: he'd learned that teaching grad-school seminars."
"The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things."
"Almost all my digressions fill a function. Exposition is boring."
"A philosophical thought is not supposed to be impervious to all criticism."
"The thing is an externalized version of identity, absorbing vague longings, momentary reflections, and fugitive impulses."
"Be classy, if you must say anything at all. I think silence is very classy."
"Dividing literature into genres is limiting, a marketing device that got out of hand."
"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
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
