"I know I see glasses as half empty rather than half full, but I can no longer distinguish my own neurotic depression from well-founded despair!"
"I know an awful lot of Hollywood people, who are so self-important, I can't understand it."
"Power has shifted from those who produce the product to those who market and retail it."
"Because I would rather be with my grandfather on Alp than anywhere on earth."
"It seems people spend the majority of their lives believing they're dying, with the only consolation being that at one point they get to be right."
"Sometimes I feel like a writer, sometimes I just feel like a snitch."
"When the phone rang, Parker was in the garage, killing a man."
"Wilde stepped off the train in Oakland wearing a Spanish sombrero, a velvet suit, a puce cravat, yellow gloves, and buckled shoes…"
Travel is no more than a relatively healthy form of narcotic, after all.
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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
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... 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
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
