
“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"

"My resistance is tinged with jealousy, because these outsiders are coming to sightsee in the place that witnessed our anonymous captivity."

"I always include an element of fantasy ... to shatter a character's routine."

"I needed to believe that the broken tractor out back was a car of the future."

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

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"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

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

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


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