I did like Robert Vavra’s book not only for its so very good photographs but for the text as well. He’s no ordinary fellow, obviously...
I don’t hate women, but I think they should be kept in cages.
MIke Lee writes with honesty, penetration, wit and the ability to surprise the reader with an unexpected turn from time to time that enriches the experience.
Movies are more likely than literature to reach deep feelings in people.
When a novel comes, it’s a grace. Something in the cosmos has forgiven you long enough so that you can start.
The true religion of America has always been America.
No physical activity is so vain as boxing. A man gets into the ring to attract admiration. In no sport, therefore, can you be more humiliated.
The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again.
A high church for the true mediocre.
I would introduce myself if it were not useless. The name I had last night will not be the same as the name I have tonight. For the moment, then, let me say that I am thinking of Sam Slovoda.
I’m hostile to men, I’m hostile to women, I’m hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I’m afraid of horses.
Cancer is the growth of madness denied.
Crude thoughts and fierce forces are my state. I do not know who I am. Nor what I was. I cannot hear a sound. Pain is near that will be like no pain felt before.
We sail across dominions barely seen, washed by the swells of time. We plow through fields of magnetism. Past and future come together on thunderheads and our dead hearts live with lightning in the wounds of the Gods.
Along with all else, Sandman is a comic strip for intellectuals, and I say it’s about time.
Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still slippery with blood.
Over-certified adjectives are the mark of most best-seller writing.
So the blind will lead the blind, and the deaf shout warnings to one another until their voices are lost.
When I read it, I don’t wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.
For what does it mean to be a hero? It requires you to be prepared to deal with forces larger than yourself.