By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie. By postponing the question we have set on immaturity a premium which controls most American personality to its deathbed. – Robert S. Hillyer
My older sister was at the cusp of new wave, and I had older brothers from my fathers first marriage who were rock n roll guys, so I was exposed to a lot of popular culture. – Paul Thomas Anderson
The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind… The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself. – Laura Riding
