Quote of the Day for 2016-09-11, Fifteenth Anniversary

"For those thousands in the south tower, the second plane meant the end of everything. For us, its glint was the worldflash of a coming future."

— Martin Amis (1949-    ) "Fear and Loathing," The Guardian (September 18, 2001)

Aerial view of Ground Zero, in lower Manhattan, New York City (September 17, 2001) Photograph by Chief Photographer's Mate Eric J. Tilford

Quote of the Day for 2016-08-26

"When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life."

— Martin Amis (1949-    ) "Kurt Vonnegut: After the Slaughterhouse," The Observer (November 3, 1985)

Emma Watson, the beneficiary of one literary empire, Photoshopped onto the prop of another (2011) Original photograph of Watson by Joel Ryan (November 12, 2010)