Deputy Editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books.
"A novelist is an elephant, but an elephant who must pretend to forget."
"I’m inclined to think of comics as a kind of temporal map, a way of substituting space for time, of mapping out a temporal progression in 2D or 3D."
"Almost every woman I approached had a tomboy story she wanted to tell."
"In fact, so much does our happiness depend on such illusions, that, in the West, lacking them is even correlated with psychiatric problems."
"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
"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
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
