Quotes by Kurt Andersen

“When I talk to college students about Spy, its like Im describing something that happened in the 19th century. We were very lucky. We started Spy at a time when our generation had arrived at full adulthood and wanted to connect to its anti-establishment youth.”

“Were focusing on particular works — films, books, pieces of music, architecture — that deserve the name icon and have this influence on our culture. Everybody knows those things, but almost because theyre icons, people dont look below the fact of them.”

“We got 200 e-mails (about it). Lots of people had the same reaction. They were assigned to read it in school and didnt. We try to take things that sometimes people turn off of because theyre introduced to them too early or for some other reason, and try to make them entertaining.”

“Its high and low (culture), and were casting a net wide. Almost everyone knows of these things; its not like were bringing them some obscure things.”

“It is so much the first among equals of that world.”