I got very well acquainted with Joe Stalin, and I like old Joe! He is a decent fellow. But Joe is a prisoner of the Politburo.
I never knew how empty the world could be, how colorless, until I tried to live in it without you
There are in life a few moments so beautiful,that even words are a sort of profanity.
Get used to it. Life doesn't give, it takes. Anything worth having is worth fighting for.
Women won't have total equality until men can get pregnant.
No revolution succeeds without sacrifice.
Women are the cradles of life. What sort of man tries to break a cradle (Marc)
Maggie Shipstead's prose is so graceful and muscular, so dazzling, so sure-handed and fearless, that at times I had to remind myself to breathe. Astonish Me is a treasure of small surprises.
We are the sum of who we are. We pick certain things at certain moments that influenced us.
I play video games, dude!
Fair, rich confusion is all the aim of an old-fashioned flower garden, and the greater the confusion, the richer. You want to come upon mignonnette in unexpected places, and to find sprays of heliotrope in close consultation with your roses, and geraniums sporting their uniforms like gay recruits off duty.