"Even drunk, I knew any escape plan that involved going to Detroit, Michigan, was a harbinger of doom."
"English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows."
“Poetry is a terrifying mix of artistic rigor and honesty, but then, that's what I have been striving for in my fiction, so maybe it won't be so bad."
"A simple image on the blackboard snagged at her feelings and Ellie had loved it because it failed, because there was no mirror and no symmetry."
"In an age when we so need that indeterminacy, it allows us room for our lives to mean something, it leaves gaps in the walls of reality."
"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
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
