In the news

"Literature is news that stays news."

-- Ezra Pound

Saying no

"I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs."

-- Samuel Goldwyn

Rated PG?

"A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to."

-- Granville Hicks

Buying too many books?

"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?"

-- Henry Ward Beecher

Thoughts on art

"First, I am dealing with no object. Perception is the object. Secondly, I am dealing with no image, because I want to avoid associative, symbolic thought. Thirdly, I am dealing with no focus or particular place to look. With no object, no image and no focus, what are you looking at? You are looking at you looking."

-- James Turrell

Answers from above

"When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers."

-- Oscar Wilde

The world comes to LA

"Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles."

-- Frank Lloyd Wright