Gerald Lucas

“Many harebrained interpretations were also widely available, especially in weekly newspapers.”
― Carl Sagan, Contact

“Racist ideas love believers, not thinkers.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“In the seventies, Walter and I wrote a tune, “Deacon Blues,” that toyed with the cliché of the jazz musician as antihero. It was kind of a takeoff on that old essay by Norman Mailer, “The White Negro,” not to mention our lives up to that point.”
― Donald Fagen, Eminent Hipsters

“Was the conquest of space then a potential chariot of Satan, the unique and grand avenue for the new totalitarian?”
― Norman Mailer, Of a Fire on the Moon