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My heroes are people like Philip Levine, who is simply like a god to me, as a writer. And he is a very good man, too.
The first comic I ever read was an 'X-Men' themed anti-smoking PSA they gave out in health class when I was about 10.
I grew up in a haunted castle, boys. If you've never had a ghost try to push you down the stairs, you've never lived.
Do as little as necessary to appear to be doing something without actually committing to a cause or course of action.
Desks are terrible places, no matter how many wheels a chair might have. You can't do much about how drawers fill up.
I was raised on farms by people who didn't have Wal-Mart. They had to make their own sleds, harnesses, clothing, etc.
In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great.
And the voice grows stronger and stronger, and it’s my voice this time and it’s asking a question: How does she know?
Superheroes were created in America, they're most popular in America, and at their best, they embody American ideals.
My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure.
All small returns are noise. To transcend the noise and the risk, seek outsized returns from technological paradigms.
I feel that there is nothing that can happen to a person that is banal. Everything that happens to us is interesting.
By dancing in a socially approved way with their peers, individiuals proclaim their allegiance to society as a whole.
The new kind of dancing meant liberation not only from the rules of leading and following but from rules of any kind.
Hope in gates, hope in spoons, hope in doors, hope in tables, no hope in daintiness and determination. Hope in dates.
Bad teaching wastes a great deal of effort, and spoils many lives which might have been full of energy and happiness.
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.
The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.
It's human to hear stories and to know how people live and to imagine how that is for them. It's very interdependent!
I'm trying to give people an idea of what black looks like and what white looks like before I introduce them to gray.
Everything we are afraid to try, all our unfulfilled dreams, constitute a limitation on what we are and could become.
For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.
As Brooks Adams put it, the sole problem of our ruling class is whether to coerce or to bribe the powerless majority.
In a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize.
The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
I see women as oppressed, but I don't see them as victims; I see them rising all the time. I see them as very strong.
My life will always have dirty dishes. If this sink can become a place of contemplation, let me learn constancy here.
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal. I've never sought it (though I desire it) and seek it less and less.
I lose hope when the desire for life awakens within me; but I regain it whenever the longing for death comes upon me.
Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life.
The greatest power you possess in life is your understanding that life gives you a fresh start any moment you choose.
The only one interested in hearing your sad story is . . . you; and even you wish you didn't have to relive it again!
The real quality of our life is not determined by what we have won from it, but by what we have discovered within it.
If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.
Success is to be measured not by wealth, power, or fame, but by the ratio between what a man is and what he might be.
It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.
When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.
If we do not end war - war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does anything.
Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
When thou hast truly thanked the Lord for every blessing sent, But little time will then remain for murmur or lament.
Resentment is an evil so costly to our peace that we should find it more cheap to forgive even were it no more right.
We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.
Most politicians believe in just one thing - winning elections. They'll say anything to get in office and stay there.
Not just beautiful, though--the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they're watching me.
The body is not the only target of rape. Violence does not always take a visible form, and not all wounds gush blood.
What I think is this: You should give up looking for lost cats and start searching for the other half of your shadow.
If I'm going to merely ramble, maybe I should just snuggle under the warm covers, think of Miu, and play with myself.
I'm not a fast reader. I like to linger over each sentence, enjoying the style. If I don't enjoy the writing, I stop.
Having an object that symbolizes freedom might make a person happier than actually getting the freedom it represents.