Ceaseless Life and Death: On Tom Comitta’s “The Nature Book”

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

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

"The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter, eh?" — Dashiell Hammett

"I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry." — John Cage

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

"I see great things in baseball." — Walt Whitman

"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." — Lorraine Hansberry

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

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

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins