
“The distinction between complex thinking / right-answer thinking increasingly defines the difference between elite educational opportunity and education of the rest.”"If the SAT Were a Key to All Mythology" by Monica Cohen

"The definition of “human” is under near constant assault on a dozen or so technological, scientific, and sociological fronts."

"The avant-garde is now an arrière-garde."

"I always thought of the vampire as being a metaphor for the outsider in each of us."

"Satan demands to sift us like sand through his fingers, and God, knowing everything, allows it."

"Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones."

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

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

"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More