"At 17, all I wanted was to be a famous junky. Like all my heroes."

-- Jerry Stahl

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“When comics came along in the 1930s there was a talent pool waiting. And one reason is so many areas were closed to Jews. Colleges, advertising agencies, many of the corporations - the doors that were closed led to the one that was open.”
“There are books that one reads over and over again, books that become part of the furniture of oneâ€™s mind and alter oneâ€™s whole attitude to life, books that one dips into but never reads through, books that one reads at a single sitting and forgets a week later:”
“When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.”
“Luckily, my children love broccoli, and although we sometimes enter into UN-like negotiations about how many 'trees' they need to eat before they can partake of ice cream, it is a vegetable that they tend to embrace.”
“Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive.”
“Open your mind before your mouth”
“I had never thought about it, but summer was Dill by the fishpool smoking string, Dill's eyes alive with complicated plans to make Boo Radley emerge; summer was the swiftness with which Dill would reach up and kiss me when Jem was not looking, the longings we sometimes felt each other feel. With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable..." - Scout Finch”
“The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.”

Source : Jackson Pollock, Gagosian Gallery (1990). “Jackson Pollock: black enamel paintings, April-May 1990”

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