Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - March 21, 2025
Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
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Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007)  
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
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Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)  
I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator and name it after the IRS.
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Robert Bakker, paleontologist  
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
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Arthur Koestler (1905 - 1983)  
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