"This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother."
"So many people in Los Angeles seem to get what they want. Is this how they start?"
"Those who claim to write about something larger and more significant than the self sometimes fail to comprehend the dimensions of self."
"In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius."
"I happen to believe that hand puppets are the key to the coming revolution."
"Every time Elvis sings, he makes a bargain with the devil — just like Captain Ahab in Moby Dick!"
"A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail."
"One of the best possible perspectives from which to tell a story is that of a ghost, someone who is dead but can still witness."
"We want to glorify war — the only cure for the world."
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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
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... 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
