
“Exquisite in both story and sentence, the Anne books built me as a reader, which is to say: they built me.”Sarah Mesle on "Anne of Green Gables"

"The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking."

"These problems we face are immediate and on the calendar, not abstract notions any more. The fiscal cliff is coming. It’s coming in December."

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”

"Billions of bilious blue blistering barnacles in a thundering typhoon!"

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More

"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More

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


"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More

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"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More

"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More

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