
“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

"But every penny they borrowed or made from China has really come as a result of how this nation sacrificed everybody’s rights."

"He sat in the window thinking. Man has a tropism for order. Keys in one pocket, change in the other."

"The real marriage of true minds is for any two people to possess a sense of humor or irony pitched in exactly the same key"

Susan Whitall is a Detroit News reporter and author of Fever, the Little Willie John Biography

"It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer."

"The most important things in our intimate lives can't be discussed with strangers, except in books."

"There were plenty of things in the world that deserved to stay dead, yet they walked."

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


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


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

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

"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More

"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More