"Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone."
"I want to tell them I’m no one’s master, that there are no slaves in a free Zimbabwe. I keep quiet and they turn to other prey."
"We could only pay attention to one dying person at a time."
"Academics tend to be quite impatient. Perhaps it comes — you'll excuse me — from having so few demands on your time."
"…small kids with helmets weighing more than their heads, ragged on by parents with crossed arms and ambition in their eyes"
"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."
"It’s well to remember that the world of literary nonfiction borders upon the world of fiction, and sometimes their boundaries overlap."
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
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"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
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
