
“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

"That notion of feeling imprisoned by circumstances or one’s own desires and drives is so fundamental to noir."

"The bartender in Cuenca set the plate before us and we beheld a huge pig mask."

"The memory of colonialism in the Middle East has certainly not been erased."

"This is when it finally dawned on me that one couldn't write like Gogol or Stendhal or Proust in today's world."

"Readers are looking for books that will explore India's transformation and rise and not condescend."

"It's not about being the first, it's about conceptualizing."

"The brother of Ferran, Albert Adria is a chef in his own right."

“It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.”

A visual and spatial artist who combines poetry, painting, photography and technology.

"Fantasy nerd pretty much from day one."

"Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose."


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

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

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

"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More

"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More


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