David Alexander > Quotes

“I think the ultimate pornography is the violent films, the war films. Those scenes of killing and maiming people. By some strange twist of mind, slaughtering people with machine guns seems to be acceptable while pinching a tit seems to be an awful thing. ~ Gene Roddenberry 1972 interview”
― David Alexander, Star Trek Creator: The Authorized Biography of Gene Roddenberry

“Maybe a Holy Joe at the Sally Ann — the Salvation Army — or the bartender at Grogan’s gin mill on the Bowery. Just in case the cops get to smelling around with their big noses, understand.”
― David Alexander, The Third Golden Age of Mystery and Crime MEGAPACK®: David Alexander

“went around saying things like that every Negro and Jew was a Communist and should be deported or put in jail and in our town when a man goes around saying things like that they figure he’s got a hole in his head and don’t pay any attention except to josh him a little, maybe.”
― David Alexander, The Third Golden Age of Mystery and Crime MEGAPACK®: David Alexander

“Bessie who peddled wilted flowers in night spots hanging by her scrawny neck from the rear fire escape of an old-law tenement.”
― David Alexander, The Third Golden Age of Mystery and Crime MEGAPACK®: David Alexander

“My great ambition was to black the boots of John L. Sullivan, who had knocked out Jake Kilrain in the 75th round of their bare-knuckle fight at Richburg, Mississippi, the year before.”
― David Alexander, The Third Golden Age of Mystery and Crime MEGAPACK®: David Alexander

“I find myself, like many thoughtful citizens, on the horns of the dilemma of being totally opposed to violence but also as totally opposed to allowing certain conditions in our society to continue. I don’t want any J.C. Penney branch store burned and looted, but I deplore even more the original Watts in which human dignity, aspiration, and often even life were impossible! A contempt for law and resort to violence will certainly destroy any social structure, but is a discomforting fact that they are more often a result of something than a cause. ~ Gene Roddenberry Mar 1970 letter”
― David Alexander, Star Trek Creator: The Authorized Biography of Gene Roddenberry

“During the long dry spell Charlotte had been existing in a fool’s paradise and had convinced herself that she had banished Mr. Tibbetts. She had even abandoned her old habit of dialing for the weather report the minute after Ned rushed off to catch his commuter train.”
― David Alexander, The Third Golden Age of Mystery and Crime MEGAPACK®: David Alexander