A'Lelia Bundles
A'Lelia Bundles

Every ethnic group has a mythology... Until 'Roots'... there was nothing in the popular culture to refute the paragraph in elementary school history class that said, 'Slaves picked the cotton, were happy and life wasn't so bad.'

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

It is impossible to be taken seriously in shorts. No one has ever cared about anything said by a man in shorts.

A. B. Yehoshua
A. B. Yehoshua

At the heart of anti-Semitism lies Moses. He made a catastrophic error, a terrible mistake, and all anti-Semitism for two thousand years stems from his misjudgement. Moses said we Jews could remain a people without having a land. He said we don't need territory to hold onto our Jewish identity. This was a disaster.

A. P. Herbert
A. P. Herbert

If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.

A. P. Martinich
A. P. Martinich

A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'

A. R. Ammons
A. R. Ammons

There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.

A. R. Ammons
A. R. Ammons

The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.

A. Scott Berg
A. Scott Berg

After 'Lindbergh,' my publisher asked whom I wanted to write about next. I said, 'There's one idea I've been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It's Woodrow Wilson.'

Aaliyah
Aaliyah

The Matrix is top secret. There isn't much that can be said right now.

Aaron Dessner
Aaron Dessner

I had been living with my family in France as COVID was starting to spiral out of control in Europe. I said to my wife that maybe they should come back to the States with me because I was worried about getting separated.