As Lost as the Rest of Us: On Jeff Deutsch’s “In Praise of Good Bookstores”

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf

Memoir &amp; Essay

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

<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;">— Dr. Seuss</p>

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

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

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

“The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.” — Aristotle

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

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

"As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag." — Patti Smith