I got a little secretarial job after college, but I thought of it as a prelude. Education, work, whatever you did before marriage,... was only a prelude to your real life, which was marriage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I shou...ld live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw, not because she is Canada but because she's something sublime that you... were born into, some great rugged power that you are a part of.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Life's an awfully lonesome affair.... You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are m...ore alone while living than even going and coming.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Thirties dreamed white marble and slipstream chrome, immortal crystal and burnished bronze, but the rockets on the Gernsback p...ulps had fallen on London in the dead of night, screaming. After the war, everyone had a car--no wings for it--and the promised superhighway to drive it down, so that the sky itself darkened, and the fumes ate the marble and pitted the miracle crystal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'd been in Burbank for three days, trying to suffuse a really dull-looking rocker with charisma.... It is possible to photograph ...what isn't there; it's damned hard to do, and consequently a very marketable talent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They're semiotic phantoms, bits of deep cultural imagery that have split off and taken on a life of their own, like those Jules Ve...rne airships that those old Kansas farmers were always seeing.... Semiotic ghosts. Fragments of the Mass Dream, whirling past in the wind of my passage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[During the 1930s] ... they put Ming the Merciless in charge of designing California gas stations. Favoring the architecture of hi...s native Mongo, he cruised up and down the coast erecting raygun emplacements in white stucco. Lots of them featured superfluous central towers ringed with those strange radiator flanges that were a signature motif of the style, and made them look as though they might generate potent bursts of raw technological enthusiasm, if you could only find the switch to turn them on.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »