
“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"

"It passes, but it does not pass away."

"I've fused my silence and repression with the entire female gender's silence and repression."

"Wealthy Americans who benefit hugely from a system rigged in their favor react with hysteria to anyone who points out just how rigged the system is."

"The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them."

"Japan has the money and the facilities but no real interest in or understanding of contemporary art."

"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More

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

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

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


"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... 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