The Purdzilla Show

I was sitting on the bench under the diving board pretending to watch the people in the pool. The water was green and transparent and tiny shadows flittered thickly across the milky glass in the high windows - it was snowing outside and the lamps in the passage cast shadows from the snowflakes onto the glass. Josef Skvorecky (in The Swell Season )

 

[It's] a sp ace opera  in the tradition of Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers. It's James Bond and 2001  combined - super fantasy, capes and swords and laser guns and spaceships shooting each other, and all that sort of stuff. But it's not camp. It's meant to be an exciting action adventure film. George Lucas (pitching his new film idea of 'The Star Wars' to studios)

George was enormously far-sighted, and the studio wasn't, because they didn't know the world was changing. George did  know the world was changing. I mean he changed it . (Twentieth Century Fox executive) Gareth Wigan (on Fox' signing away the sequel rights and Star Wars merchandising to George instead of paying him more after the success of American Graffiti )

Photo by Miguel Ángel Hernández on Unsplash 'You start Saul, and end up Paul,' my grandfather had often said. 'When you're a youngun, you Saul, but let life whup your head a bit and you starts trying to be Paul - though you still Saul around on the side.' Ralph Ellison (in Invisible Man )

Photo by Museums Victoria on Unsplash These white folk have newspapers, magazines, radios, spokemen to get their ideas across. If they want to tell the world a lie, they can tell it so well that it becomes the truth; and if I tell them that you're lying, they'll tell the world even if you prove you're telling the truth. Because it's the kind of lie they want to hear... Ralph Ellison (in Invisible Man )

Photo by Ales Krivec on Unsplash I stretched out beneath the covers, hearing the springs groan beneath me. The room was cold. I listened to the night sounds of the house. The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled. Ralph Ellison (in Invisible Man )