MindProbe

“I'd been going back and forth on a three-month visa, which occasionally I was allowed to renew for a six-month, but it was working out very expensive so I thought I'd apply for my three-year visa. And they turned me down because they said I was a drugs trafficker. Total load of bollocks; it wasn't trafficking, it was possession.”
― Jacqueline Pearce, Call Me Jacks-Jacqueline Pearce In Conversation

“In Superman, some of the loftiest aspirations of our species came hurtling down from imagination's bright heaven to collide with the lowest form of entertainment, and from their union something powerful and resonant was born, albeit in its underwear.”
― Grant Morrison, Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human

“To write something down is to make a fossil record of a mind.”
― Jill Lepore, These Truths: A History of the United States

“But it's still possible to find depths in Shuster's drawing. I can't help but see in these handmade fantasies the poignant products of young minds dreaming better tomorrows. The depth of engaged meditation, the focus that goes into writing and drawing even the crudest of the comics, emerges through the least-assured line. The pages are the result of human hours, and the glory and confusion of what it means to be here now—on a coffee and pills jag at four in the morning with a story to hand in by lunchtime—shines from between the lines of the lowliest eight-pager.”
― Grant Morrison, Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human